The lecture points out that the arguments given in the passage about the benefits of offering the employees the option of working a four-day workweek are full of doubts and does not hold water. In fact, the lecturer disagree with the statement saying that, if employee choose to working 4 days a week instead of 5, their life can be better and it would benefit the company's economy. To support his case, the lecturer provides the following reasons.
First of all, the company will have to spend much more money, not less, if employees opted for the four-day workweek plan. In fact, the new hired staff will have to have training, computers, offices, and space. Consequently, this will cost the company and cuts its profit. Also, the overall medical benefits will increase as well since for the two recruitment strategies, they will have the same medical benefit.
Second of all, the employment rate will not be necessarily be reduced since company's can either offer work overtime for their current employees to make difference. Not only that but it can also increase its work expectation which results in greater workload that affects the employee and probably result in making more costly errors.
Finally, providing more free time for workers in the four-day workweek plan, unlike what is stated in the passage, would decrease their stability and provide them with low chance of advancement in their career. Moreover, these workers can be vulnerable in economic crisis and subject to economical downturn and even pass over in promotion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, if, moreover, second, so, well, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1299.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09411764706 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47486091788 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607843137255 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.088552132 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.090909091 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1818181818 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.54545454545 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.238783351357 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.087771115378 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731043298836 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136060480856 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054156605804 0.0443174109184 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => 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: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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