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 material, the reading passage claims that benefits of reducing workdays is threefold: a) it decreases companies costs, then, companies profit will increase b) it reduces unemployment rate through offering more job opportunities, and c) employees can spend more time with their family and pursue their private interests. However, the lecturer finds all ideas dubious and presents some evidences to refute them all.
First of all, the author of the passage states that companies can hire more staff to do works, so, employees are less under pressure of overworking and they are less likely to make mistakes which harm company’s profit. Therefore, without assigning any extra money to staffs’ payments, company’s financial and operational performance can improve. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the reasons to reject this idea. He states hiring new staffs may force companies to spend more money on new staffs’ training and medical insurances which are equal to both four-day employees and five-day employees. Therefore, expenditure of companies will increase. Furthermore, the lecturer states that new staffs need office space and budget to new computers. Then, allocate more money on equipment will costly to companies.
Second of all, it is mentioned in the article that employing more staff in companies will decrease unemployment rate and offers more job opportunities. On the contrary, the lecturer draws attention to the fact that companies may raise their expectations and ask employees to work at the same amount of time as they have worked in four days. So, although employees are committed to work for four days, companies may oblige them to work beyond contraction.
Finally, the reading passage asserts that employees would benefit from four-day working because they can spend more time with their family or purse their personal interests instead of working for higher income. In contrast, the speaker disapproves the idea due to the fact that more free time could be risky to the employees. Because they may come across with situations which lose their chance to get promotion due to top managers’ perspective about employees’ ability to work consistently in order to supervise other staffs and tasks for the entire workweek. Furthermore, four-day employees may decrease their job stability and quality of life in economic recession as first persons who quit the company in such period of time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 102, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...fits of reducing workdays is threefold: a it decreases companies costs, then, com...
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Line 1, column 102, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'a' or 'it'?
Suggestion: a; it
...fits of reducing workdays is threefold: a it decreases companies costs, then, compan...
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Line 7, column 725, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...st persons who quit the company in such period of time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, in contrast, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 30.3222958057 175% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2077.0 1373.03311258 151% => OK
No of words: 384.0 270.72406181 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40885416667 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88144540002 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 145.348785872 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546875 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 419.366225166 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.715219553 49.2860985944 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.8125 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.262406028245 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885253224322 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.073570783243 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168553262557 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0527344388073 0.0443174109184 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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