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 four-day workweek is beneficial and provides three reasons for support. However, the professor explains that this kind of work doesn't have any advantage for employees and individuals and refutes each of the author’s reasons
First, the reading states that increasing the number of employees will increase company’s profit. The professor denies this point. He states that enhancing, forces company to spend much more money on providing training and medical benefits. The cost of these things like health benefit can be the same whether the employees working four days or five. Also increasing the employees is equal to increasing the office space requirements and computer requirement for them resulting in reducing in company’s profit.
Second, the article claims that choosing four workweeks provides more works available. However, as the professor said previously hiring new workers is costly and companies may ask their workers to work overtime to make up differences. Also, the companies may raise their expect and force their four-day employees to accomplish the work as they could perform in five days. So not only this method does not make any further job but also it would be unpleasant for the workers.
Third, the reading claims that four-day suggestion is better for employees because it makes more free time for them but the professor says that this claim is wrong because this decrease their job’s ability and harm their chance for the advance career also in economic downturn these people are the first ones who may lose their job.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 152, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ofessor explains that this kind of work doesnt have any advantage for employees and in...
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Line 2, column 357, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...he employees working four days or five. Also increasing the employees is equal to in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 30.3222958057 53% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1342.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30434782609 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61357191878 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588932806324 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 393.3 419.366225166 94% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => 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: 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.8516093331 49.2860985944 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.0 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287225476416 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111121161476 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0748886369528 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184340284738 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0343808544226 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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