4-Day Workweek
The popular 5-day workweek has long been a staple in U.S. business. With employees working 8 hours a day for a total of 40 hours a week, it has been seen as a model of efficiency. However, some companies and government agencies have begun converting to a 10-hour-a-day, 4-day workweek. This conversion offers numerous benefits to both businesses and employees and should be seriously considered.
First, a 4-day workweek will alleviate some considerable expenses for the average employee. A recent national survey found that 34% of prospective employees turned down job offers because of long commutes to work. With the high cost of gas and vehicle maintenance, eliminating one day’s driving per week will reduce expenses by quite a bit, making the idea of working far from home more appealing and giving employees the opportunity to use the money saved to cover other, more pressing costs.
Second, reducing the number of working days will lower the operating costs of most businesses; employers won’t need to keep their business open an extra day. This will result in less money spent on fixed expenses, such as lighting and air conditioning, helping to improve a company’s profitability. By eliminating one business day, companies will not only save significantly on operating expenses but also have the additional benefit of a more efficient workforce continually energized with a 3-day weekend.
Third, a 4-day workweek will improve the ability of employees to spend time with their families. Work is often cited as the major reason why parents don’t spend time with their children and one reason why some stop working. With a reduced workweek, they will spend an extra day with their children and other loved ones, helping to improve their overall quality of life and thus sending them back to work happier.
The reading and the lecture are both about four-day week work. Whereas, the author of the passage states that there are many advantages, if peoples started to work a four-day week, the lecturer suggets that a four-day week is not the best option. The speaker casts doubt on the main points in the text by providing three reasons.
First of all, according to the reading, the shortened workweek would increase company profits, for employees who will take this option. However, the speaker disputes this idea by saying that this option will force companies to expand, so bussiness will ending spending more money in activites such as training, computers, and more space for workers to work. Furthermore, he mentions that companies'll have to offer health insurance to all their employees wheter if they are four-day or five-day week workers, affecting the companies' money.
Secondly, the passage states that one main advantage of offering this option is this will help to reduce unemploment rates. Nevertheless, the speaker refutes this argument by saying that some companies will asked some of their employess who are woking a four-day week to work extra hours. he, points out that some companies are going to make their workers to do the same amount of work that they used to do in five-day week but in four-day week.
Finally, the text claims that four-day workweek would be better for each employee whom are going to enjoy more free time. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that it is true they will probably have more free time but they will be running many risks. Since if the company decided to reduce their people, four-day workers are more probably to get fired.
In conclusion, although the reading and the audio are both about four-day work week, the three main points made in the text are effectively challenged by the lecturer.
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- TPO 01 Integrated Writing next 19 51 HIDE TIME Directions You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the 70
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- 4 Day Workweek The popular 5 day workweek has long been a staple in U S business With employees working 8 hours a day for a total of 40 hours a week it has been seen as a model of efficiency However some companies and government agencies have begun conver 60
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'end'
Suggestion: end
... companies to expand, so bussiness will ending spending more money in activites such a...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'companies'' or 'company's'?
Suggestion: companies'; company's
...or five-day week workers, affecting the companies money. Secondly, the passage sta...
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...workers, affecting the companies money. Secondly, the passage states that one m...
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...anies money. Secondly, the passage states that one main advantage of offeri...
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Suggestion: ask
...ment by saying that some companies will asked some of their employess who are woking ...
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Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
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... in five-day week but in four-day week. Finally, the text claims that four-day w...
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...workers are more probably to get fired. In conclusion, although the reading and ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, whereas, in conclusion, such as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96784565916 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38957164061 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501607717042 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2820901556 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.846153846 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9230769231 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.2307692308 7.06452816374 173% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241812439612 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105112403443 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676711472163 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149400483548 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302607232566 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.