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 section states that the United States employees have a typical five days a week work schedule with 8 hours of work each day but many employees want a four day week of work and at a lesser pay or income. The reading passage suggests that this would be beneficial for the company, increasing profits and also economy of the country. The person in the lectures disavows the above elucidation of the reading passage and provides specific reason against the point that were made in the reading section.
Firstly, the author of the reading passafe suggests that implementing shorter workweeks would increase the employee satisfaction in terms of rest and that the employees would be more meticulous in their work. This would help the company to hire more people with similar smaller workweeks of 4days a week than the typical, at 80 percent of the normal rate. The person in the lecture says that this argument made in the passage would not hold as the author fails to consider the additional costs that would be incurred by the company due to the training that these new employees will need and also the health benefits. Health benefits more or less remain constant and thus more employees would require more health benefits and would increase the cost thus cutting into the company profits.
Secondly, more number of workers would require more work space and also a larger amount of resources like computers which will also contribute to the increase in the cost to the company. The author fails to discuss these perspectives.
Thirdly the company might expect more from the workers who used to work more number of days a week prior to working 4 days a week. This might result in the workers possibly getting over worked , eventually reducing the efficiency of the workers contrary to what it has been stated in the reading passage.
Lastly, though the suggestions of the passage seems to reduce the unemployment by purportedly creating more job opportunities, the speaker says that it won't be so because the author fails to consider the fact that employees working lesser days a week will have lower job security in times of economic short comings. As suggested by the speaker it is also possible that these employess might not be preffered equally in comparison to people working 5 days a week for job opportunities and which would severely harm these people to develop or advance their career.
In sum, the passage states and cites reasons to support that smaller workweeks are beneficial whereas the speaker in the listening section disavows the passage and the reasons stated in it citing pragmatic examples in cases where and when the passage fails to make a valid arguement or has no suitable explanation to them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 344, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...rofits and also economy of the country. The person in the lectures disavows the abo...
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Line 2, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...The person in the lecture says that this argument made in the passage would not h...
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Line 4, column 192, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...the workers possibly getting over worked , eventually reducing the efficiency of t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2270.0 1373.03311258 165% => OK
No of words: 463.0 270.72406181 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90280777538 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.04702891845 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50096592517 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 145.348785872 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45788336933 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 693.0 419.366225166 165% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 21.2450331126 155% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.2966183193 49.2860985944 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 162.142857143 110.228320801 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0714285714 21.698381199 152% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.328233781156 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118379359413 0.0996497079465 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.151408433056 0.0662205650399 229% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167275218178 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118235254515 0.0443174109184 267% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 13.3589403974 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.498013245 145% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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