The reading article and the audio deal about the consequences of providing a four day week option to employees at salary of 80 percent of their current amount. The author claims that it will be beneficial to employees, the companies and even to the economy as a whole by discussing corresponding reasons. However, the professor argues that it will not be advantageous to anyone by providing counter arguments to each of the reasons.
Firstly, the author mentions that it will be beneficial for the companies since such employees who chose to have four day work week can be paid less and they can hire new employees to make up for this, consequently saving money. The professor refutes this by mentioning that it would not be cost effective for the companies since it would only cost them more for training the new employees, providing for more computers and office space and other benefits. Moreover, the health benefits of the four day work week employees would remain the same too thereby effectively increasing the expense of the company.
Secondly, the author suggests that this would decrease the unemployment since it would open up new job openings. The professor rebuts this by highlighting that the companies wont prefer to hire new employees due to reasons of increased costs but rather will choose to increase the expectations on the current employees to do the five day equivalent work in four days itself by asking to work overtime. As a result, there would be no new job openings possible.
Finally, the writer states that this would have a positive effect on the personal life of such employee by providing them more leisure time. Again, the professor undermines this by noting that this four day work custom would instead have a detrimental effect on such employees by decreasing job security, growth opportunities because companies would prefer usual five day work employees for managerial roles hoping they can effectively perform their duties. As a result, this would introduce risks and possibly decrease the quality of life of such employees.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...ployees who chose to have four day work week can be paid less and they can hire new ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, as a result
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: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1730.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 342.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05847953216 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72620640471 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476608187135 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 523.8 419.366225166 125% => 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: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 74.6249883678 49.2860985944 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.166666667 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171889956627 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0721348642275 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0878810476215 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117538770789 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024993381197 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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