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 article states that in United States all employees doesn't like their traditional working culture which is 5 days a week 8 hours a day, many of them prefers a 4 day week with even less payments and the reading also provides 3 reasons to support this. However, the lecturer thinks this won't benefit the economy as like the article express and he provided three reasons to bolster his thoughts.
Firstly, the reading says that shortened workweek will increase company profits because workers will get more time to take rest, it will improve their perfection at job with more energy and it will save expenses of the company. However, the lecturer explains that, less working days will increase costs at a greater extent. It will require more money for training, medical benefits, more office spaces and computers. Which will end up cutting a huge amount from the company's profit.
Secondly, the article explains that as a whole it will reduce unemployments. The lecturer defend this illustrating that there are so many negative impacts of this facts. If workers speend more leisure then it will reduce their quality and slower their promotion. Because employers prefers employees with more
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...tes that in United States all employees doesnt like their traditional working culture ...
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Line 1, column 184, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun payments is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... of them prefers a 4 day week with even less payments and the reading also provides ...
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Line 3, column 418, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Which” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...fits, more office spaces and computers. Which will end up cutting a huge amount from ...
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Line 5, column 91, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'defends'.
Suggestion: defends
...will reduce unemployments. The lecturer defend this illustrating that there are so man...
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Line 5, column 159, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...t there are so many negative impacts of this facts. If workers speend more leisure t...
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Line 5, column 202, Rule ID: LESS_MORE_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
...s facts. If workers speend more leisure then it will reduce their quality and slower...
^^^^
Line 5, column 264, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...eir quality and slower their promotion. Because employers prefers employees with more ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 30.3222958057 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1001.0 1373.03311258 73% => OK
No of words: 197.0 270.72406181 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08121827411 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43683373962 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.624365482234 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 300.6 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.645715778 49.2860985944 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.1 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273311159974 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0947685140403 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0932879349951 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173390089478 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0675966799021 0.0443174109184 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.7273730684 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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