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 professor avers that even changing five-day workweek to four-day may offer some benefits for employees but they are not enough to accept this imperresive change for businesses. He believes the reading reasons are weak and unconvincing.
The lecturer points out it is correct that decreasing one day from workdays will decrease the cost of commute, but howmuch? He explains that for the average employees it will save around 20 dollars per day and 850 in a year, which is not a big saving. He strongly disagrees this is reasonable to accept this big change in workdays. Therefore, he directly repudiates the writer's reason that with changing the work days form five to four, employees will spend a lot less which cause them accept to work even far from their home.
The speaker posits that the reading's reason about decreasing the operating cost of businesses is misguding. If business work four days a week, they will lose benefit by 20 percent, he says. In addition, employees who work ten hours a day, at the last two hours, they will have less efficacy which ends up losing more benefit for companies. With this explanation, he both rebuts the author's reason and insists that it is not justified to make this change.
Third, the spoksman puts forth that working four days a week does not necessarily mean that parents have more time to spend with their children. Since they should find a childcare facility to cover long hours in workweek, which is a hard task by itself, also they could not see their kids in the first half of the fifth day they are home and thier childern are in carehouse. As we see, the writer's opinion which people will spend more time with their loved ones help them to come back to work with high mood does not hold water.
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- TOEFL T P O 11 Integrated Writing Task 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...ng reasons are weak and unconvincing. The lecturer points out it is correct th...
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...ave around 20 dollars per day and 850 in a year, which is not a big saving. He s...
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...ept to work even far from their home. The speaker posits that the readings rea...
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...is not justified to make this change. Third, the spoksman puts forth that work...
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Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ildern are in carehouse. As we see, the writers opinion which people will spend more ti...
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...e will spend more time with their loved ones help them to come back to work with hig...
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...k with high mood does not hold water.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, therefore, third, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1450.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6925566343 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35976705193 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566343042071 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => 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: 46.675893706 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.538461538 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.61538461538 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
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: 0.20989383718 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0777063934084 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0554790885901 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139855820761 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.021085329462 0.0443174109184 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.