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 article states that converting a ten-hours-a-day into a four-day workweek could offers numerous benefits to both businesses and employees and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that just some part of these reasons are true, being not nearly enough sustainable claims and exposes weaknesses on each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading stated that the conversion will alleviate some considerable expenses for the average employee. The professor states that this point might be true but he explains that an employee spends around thirty miles a day to work, with costs of fifteen to twenty dollars a day. On the end of a month, a worker could reduce about eight hundred and fifty dollars, thus this difference will be not enough when compared with all the rearrangements and expenses that the conversion will create.
Second, the article claims that this reduction of working days will be able to lower the operating costs of most businesses and employers will not need to keep their business open one more day. However, the professor contends that changing a five days per week to a four days could create a twenty percent loose of business. The two extra hours per day might be useless, because on that late time, customers might be on their homes, unable to make business.
Third, the reading avers that this conversion will improve the ability of employees to spend more time with their families. Conversely, the lecture refutes this point by saying that in reality, this change will not add time to workers be with their families. He explains that on a ten hours a day work schedule, the parents will need to find a day care school that will be opened until late hours for their children, generating a new difficult and stressful situation. Also the professor explains that during the days-off, the children will be one way or another half of the journey in school, so the employees will not be able to stay with their sons even during this days.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 85, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'offer'
Suggestion: offer
...rs-a-day into a four-day workweek could offers numerous benefits to both businesses an...
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Line 4, column 469, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... new difficult and stressful situation. Also the professor explains that during the ...
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Line 4, column 664, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ble to stay with their sons even during this days.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 5.04856512141 376% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1664.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 338.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92307692308 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54949259031 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523668639053 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 35.0483792619 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.666666667 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1666666667 21.698381199 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.228024749091 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101513927537 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0693696270467 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160114309857 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361648832596 0.0443174109184 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 11.0289183223 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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