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 inorder 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 morestaff 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.
Question: Summarise the points made in the lecture,being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage
The mandatory bill has been passed for the companies to reduce their working days from 5 days to 4 days per week. This is mainly based on reasons that it would consequently lead to higher savings in company due to cut in pay, efficacious result in the work of employees and improve the quality of life of employees too. However, the lecturer argues that this might not be the case because of several reasons.
Firstly, The lecturer present the view that the amount of money that could be saved by reducing the pay of employees to 80% of previous amount which they were being paid might not be significant when compared to new expenses resulted by addition of employees. The addition of new employees to cover the remaining workload might invite new expenses of office expenses, new computer, medical benefits which will eventually curtail the profit.
Secondly, The lecturer argues regarding the effect of implementation of this bill on the overall employment opportunities. The company might start over expecting from their employees and expect them to complete the work in four days which requires five days to be completed. This would create less job opportunities for new employees and reduce the quality of life of currently working employees due to hectic and stringent schedule.
Lastly, Lecturer also underscore the adverse effect that might result or the consequences that four day per week employee might face in contrast to employee who work five days per week. He states that during the economic insolvencies or crisis, the employee working 4 day per week might be first ones to lose the job. They might face problem in the promotion too. In addition to this, employees working four day per week might not be included in overall management activity.
Thus, the lecturer views are abovementioned about the effect that might result in implementation of mandatory bill in a different tone than the views mentioned in the passage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, in contrast, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1622.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 323.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02167182663 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70131955842 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489164086687 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 485.1 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0918596597 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.769230769 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8461538462 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4615384615 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.366938297649 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152000840275 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132290225412 0.0662205650399 200% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209994864717 0.162205337803 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.13841684868 0.0443174109184 312% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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