Both the reading and listening discuss whether US employees should work five days a week or four days a week. The passage provides three advantages of working four days a week. The lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the article. He refutes each of the author's reasons.
The first benefit of working less hours is that it will enhance the company's profit and less mistakes. Workers have more time to relax and the firm pay them eighty percents of their normal wages. This is challenged by the speaker. He states that the company have to spend the same amount of money for training, medical benefits for every employee. Moreover, they have to buy additional offices, computers. As a result, this will decrease the profit. Therefore, the firm does not get any advantage of having four-day per week workers.
The second area of advantage according to the article is the reduction of unemployment rate. There would be more jobs for new workers because of four-day workers. The company only have to pay eighty percent rate. Nevertheless, the professor argues that it is easier to ask employees to work overtime than hiring new workers. Additionally, it is worse when managers expect the same results from four-day workers as five-day workers. This will trigger huge harm to ongoing jobs. In other words, working less hours does not affect to the unemployment rate.
Last but not least, working less hours will give employees time to spend on vacation, activities. They will have opportunities to enjoy their lives after work. The professor, on the other hand, opposes by saying that their career may be jeopardized in the sense that they are not likely to get new promotion. The firm usually love to hire five-day workers to be managers to be capable of caring most work in the company.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 30, Rule ID: LESS_DOLLARSMINUTESHOURS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer hours'?
Suggestion: fewer hours
... reasons. The first benefit of working less hours is that it will enhance the companys pr...
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Line 2, column 30, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... reasons. The first benefit of working less hours is that it will enhance the compa...
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Line 2, column 89, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun mistakes is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...it will enhance the companys profit and less mistakes. Workers have more time to rel...
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Line 3, column 501, Rule ID: LESS_DOLLARSMINUTESHOURS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer hours'?
Suggestion: fewer hours
...o ongoing jobs. In other words, working less hours does not affect to the unemployment rat...
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Line 3, column 501, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...o ongoing jobs. In other words, working less hours does not affect to the unemployme...
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Line 4, column 29, Rule ID: LESS_DOLLARSMINUTESHOURS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer hours'?
Suggestion: fewer hours
...ment rate. Last but not least, working less hours will give employees time to spend on va...
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Line 4, column 29, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ment rate. Last but not least, working less hours will give employees time to spend...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, as a result, in other words, 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: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1488.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87868852459 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49651409751 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547540983607 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.7519011129 49.2860985944 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 67.6363636364 110.228320801 61% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.8636363636 21.698381199 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.433052697421 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106088990344 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769332916509 0.0662205650399 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250680085685 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.036957341635 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 13.3589403974 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.43 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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