four-day week and are willing to accept less payment
In the United States, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less payment in order to do so. A passage claims that this option will benefit the whole economy and individuals who agree to take the option because it would increase company profits, reduce unemployment rates, and it will be better for individual employees. However, the lecture thinks the opposite.
First of all, shortened workdays wouldn’t actually increase company profits. Even though employees feel a lot more rested and alert, making them to make less mistakes in work, hiring more staff in order to ensure the same amount of work to be finished will cause more money to be paid into providing training and medical benefits that cost almost the same no matter the employees work four or five days. Moreover, more staff means that more office space and more computers to be offered. The sum of the cost of these factors may even result in the company to spend more.
Secondly, it doesn’t mean that once some workers choose shortened workdays, overall unemployment will decrease. Despite that more staff are hired as mentioned above, companies have other options such as making the employees work overtime or even raise expectations that workers should work the amount of five-days’ work in four days. If so, other jobs will be unavailable and current jobs may just become worse.
Finally, the option of shortened workdays prevents risks that could end up decreasing the quality of life of employees who choose to have this option. Even though the option offers more free time to employees, shortened workdays could reduce employees’ job stability, and chances are small if employees want to advance their careers. In fact, employees who choose to have shortened workdays are likely to be the first to lose their jobs during an economic downturn and be passed over promotions because companies prefer five-day employees to ensure continuous coverage and supervision for an entire workweek.
- TPO 4 Endotherms 70
- four day week and are willing to accept less payment 70
- When people are asked about the most important discoveries or inventions made in the last two hundred years they usually mention something very obvious like the computer or the cell phone But there are thousands of other discoveries or inventions that hav 70
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, in fact, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 43.0788530466 37% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1678.0 1977.66487455 85% => OK
No of words: 328.0 407.700716846 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11585365854 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51334185289 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545731707317 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 9.59856630824 10% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.2601634696 48.9658058833 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.076923077 100.406767564 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2307692308 20.6045352989 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 5.45110844103 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174183802383 0.236089414692 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0690912346501 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.137134151984 0.0737576698707 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131026192068 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126978925541 0.0645574589148 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 11.7677419355 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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