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.
Both the reading and lecture discuss whether employees should offer four-day week, instead of five days in a week. The former argues that offering the four-day week is best approach, and there are three benefits for doing so, mainly to the country economy, individual companies and the employees, but latter challenges the each of these points.
First of all the reading asserts making the short period workweek boost the company profits as employees feel relax, which ultimately reduce the cost of company. However, the lecture counters that it willnot work because adding the more employees added the more cost of company. He supports his arguments by presenting the example of companies expenses after added cost in training, purchasing of computer, and require more office spaces which increase the cost of company.
Secondly, according to the passage the expert opined that diminishing in the four-day workweek helps to reduce the unemployment rates of country, which eventually benefits for country as a whole. In contrast, the professor in the lecture objects this idea that it will increase more unemployment because the company will offer overtime with good the allowances to the same employees which work four-workweek.
Finally, the author claims that reducing the workweek will enhances the personal life of employees.Nevertheless, the speaker is odd with the text because four-workweek will create the job instability and during the period of economic recession company will fire the four-day work week employees first. Moreover, company will favor those employees who for five days for manaing and promotion and for supervison of the compa
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 60, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires base form of the verb: 'enhance'.
Suggestion: enhance
... claims that reducing the workweek will enhances the personal life of employees.Neverthe...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => 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: 1404.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42084942085 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81383222565 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548262548263 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 417.6 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.5436420518 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.0 110.228320801 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7777777778 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6666666667 7.06452816374 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376423757228 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.165887094523 0.0996497079465 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099334217736 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24100093837 0.162205337803 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112117020138 0.0443174109184 253% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 13.3589403974 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.75 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 60, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires base form of the verb: 'enhance'.
Suggestion: enhance
... claims that reducing the workweek will enhances the personal life of employees.Neverthe...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => 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: 1404.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42084942085 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81383222565 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548262548263 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 417.6 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.5436420518 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.0 110.228320801 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7777777778 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6666666667 7.06452816374 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376423757228 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.165887094523 0.0996497079465 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099334217736 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24100093837 0.162205337803 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112117020138 0.0443174109184 253% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 13.3589403974 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.75 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.