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 profits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. 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 reading advocates the four-day working mode is better than the normal five-day working mode with lower pay and more workers. Albeit the reading approves it, the lecture opposes the views from the reading that four-day working mode can benefit companies, the society, and workers.
First, the reading points out that shortened workweek can reduce the possible mistakes made by more workers with less stress which lead to more profits. While the lecture mentioned that hiring more workers means more training and medical cost which cannot increase companies' revenue.
Then the reading believes that the unemployment rate can be successfully reduced since companies can hire more people. Conversely, the lecture disagree with that because companies can expect workers work overtime and produce the same amount of products as five-day working mode. In this case, the hiring rate cannot be boosted.
Lastly, the author claims that workers can have more free time to improve their own hobbies and family time. On the contrary, the lecture warned us some risks including four-days workers can lose their jobs when the economic situation is dim, jobs relate to management can still need a five-day working mode requirement.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 198, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
... the lecture mentioned that hiring more workers means more training and medical cost wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, first, lastly, so, still, then, while, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 13.0 30.3222958057 43% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1030.0 1373.03311258 75% => OK
No of words: 193.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33678756477 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31122932385 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.60103626943 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 315.0 419.366225166 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7100514872 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.444444444 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4444444444 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172383939846 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803740641113 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0807846669029 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113614778603 0.162205337803 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650271009505 0.0443174109184 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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