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.
The reading and the lecture are both about a mandatory policy requiring companies to provide their employees to work for four days a week. The article states that offering the option to work four days a week is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but also for the economy as a whole and also for the employees. The author presents three reasons to support his position. However, the lecturer, by explaining that providing employees with the option of working four days a week is not beneficial to companies, nor to the economy or the employees, refutes each of the author's reasons.
Firstly, the reading claims that the shortened workweek would increase company profits. This argument is challenged by the professor. He contends that in order to replace the employees opting for the four-day work week, the company will have to hire new employees. This means that they will have to spend money on the training as well as the medical benefits of the new employees. Also, costs such as medical costs don't go down if the employees opt for a four-day work week or not. Additionally, he points out that these costs will start to eat into the company's profits.
Furthermore, the reading posits that offering this option would be beneficial for the economy as a whole as it will reduce the unemployment rate. The lecturer, however, refutes this argument by asserting that companies might ask employees to start working overtime to compensate for the work left. On the other hand, the company might not hire any new employees and ask the existing ones to work harder and longer in order to meet the goals. This in turn might lead to raised expectations and unpleasant job experiences.
Finally, the author of the article puts forth the idea that this option would be better for the individual employees as well. The professor opposes this point by explaining that it might be true that employees will have more leisure time but it will come at the cost of job stability. In case of an economic downturn, companies might consider firing employees who work only for four days a week. He goes on to say that when it is the time to consider one for promotion, companies might prefer employees who work for five days a week. As a result, this might lead to lower job satisfaction.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 326, 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.
... as a whole and also for the employees. The author presents three reasons to suppor...
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Line 3, column 416, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...yees. Also, costs such as medical costs dont go down if the employees opt for a four...
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Line 5, column 522, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tations and unpleasant job experiences. Finally, the author of the article puts ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, so, well, such as, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1896.0 1373.03311258 138% => OK
No of words: 395.0 270.72406181 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45809453852 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58723029808 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440506329114 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 568.8 419.366225166 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8061403419 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.7894736842 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7894736842 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47368421053 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.411548809631 0.272083759551 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142091507344 0.0996497079465 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134513930784 0.0662205650399 203% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276742870378 0.162205337803 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0844054996071 0.0443174109184 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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