The reading and the lecture are both about 4 day woorkweek which is working 4 days a week for 10 hours a day. The author of the reading believes that 4 day work per week will benefit both business and employees enormously.The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that 4 day workweek would not significantly improve the businesses and the lifestyle of the people.
First of all, the auhtor claims that the 4-day workweek will eliminate some considerable expenses of the employee. He believes according to a national survey 34% of the employees turned down job opportunities due to long routes to work.This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the employees wont be able to save a lot of money by working 4 days a week. Futhermore, he points out on an average the employee will save only 15-20 dollars a week which is 850 dollars per annum and that is not enough.
Secondly, the author states that curbing the number of working days will minimal the operating costs. He argues that the fixed costs of lighting , air conditioning etc. will reduce and will improve profitability. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that by opening 4 days a week will reduce an entire day of business. This is 20% less business as compared to 5 days a week. He elaborates on this by mentioning that consumers dont stay for longer hours outside to buy stuff.
Finally, the author mentions that employees will be able to spend more time with their loved ones. He notes that with reduced woorkweek employees will be able to spend an extra day with their familiy. The lecturer, on the other hand, states that it would be difficult to find day care for young children for longer hours a day. Also children have to go to school so technically their parents would have half a day to spend time with them.
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...ave half a day to spend time with them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1513.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65538461538 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58591868056 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504615384615 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.0111436799 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.0555555556 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0555555556 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325605385428 0.272083759551 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120397234672 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119807216101 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229984808978 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0962598509171 0.0443174109184 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.3589403974 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.45 12.2367328918 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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