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.
In this set of materials, the author strongly postulates how working for four days a week promotes the economy and quality of life and provides three benefits to endorse its idea. On the other hand, the professor states how working four days a week negatively affects the economy and quality of life and refutes each of the points mentioned in the article.
First and foremost, the passage begins by asserting that working four days a week increases profit for a company, and hiring more employees decreases the workload and thus decreases the chances of error. However, in contrast, the professor explains that for hiring more employees a company has to spend more money on their training and medical expenses as the number of employees increases medical expenses for each extra employee will be the same. Adding to this more workspace and computers needed and hence the profit decreases.
Next, the professor in the lecture highlights working four days a week is more costly for the company and a company could start expecting more work from the same number of employees to make up the workload which they used to finish in 5 days. In this way, there will be no more jobs for other people. These claims refuse the author's implication of decreasing unemployment by working four days a week.
Ultimately, the article wraps its arguments by explaining that if employees work four days there will be more free time for them to spend with family and for their private activities. However, the professor in the listening refutes this point by if employees have more free time there will be more risks of error. It may affect their quality of life, decreases job's stability, they might have lost their jobs, there will be fewer chances for other promotion because most companies prefer employees who have consistency, this way working four days might effect their carrier.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 326, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...r other people. These claims refuse the authors implication of decreasing unemployment ...
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Line 7, column 410, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...bility, they might have lost their jobs, there will be fewer chances for other pr...
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Line 7, column 555, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[6]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'?
Suggestion: affect
...tency, this way working four days might effect their carrier.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, as to, in contrast, on the other hand
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: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1562.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95873015873 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46307065615 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47619047619 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.7339994043 49.2860985944 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.0 110.228320801 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6363636364 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.18181818182 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => 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: 0.363635492471 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161147228534 0.0996497079465 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0786472061383 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251519802105 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246078132409 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.08 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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