In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option.
The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company benefits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rate. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.
Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests or enjoying leisure activities.
The article states that converting the five days work week to four day would be beneficial and provides three reasons of support.However, the professor explains that the benefits are not enough to justify a dramatic change to the workweek and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that the four day workweek will increase the company profits due to the reduction of the expenses for employees. The professor refutes this point by saying that the reduction is not enough to justify the change. He states that adding new workers will require training, medical benefits, more computers that will add to the expense.
Second, the article posits that there will be a reduction in unemployement rates. However, the professor says that this idea is misguided. According to the professor, hiring new workers becomes costly so, no jobs will be available and either the company expects 4 days workers to work as 5 days or the company will offer overtime works to the current workers.
Third, the reading claims that converting will allow the employees to spend more time with their family, improving their quality of life. The professor opposes this point by explaining that this will decrease the job stability and also will first cause the employee to lose their job during the academic downturn.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, third
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: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1101.0 1373.03311258 80% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07373271889 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54864124865 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552995391705 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 325.8 419.366225166 78% => 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: 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: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.2449625385 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.333333333 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1111111111 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.288694747088 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100967766669 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820313277272 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169199975331 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364573782223 0.0443174109184 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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