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.
The lecture has doubts about the benefits that can be achieved by employing the four work hours with a reduction of remuneration. The reading passage claims that on providing four days work on a week, it becomes profitable for the company, employee life become in high quality and more job opportunity will be created. The claims seem denied by the lecture.
Firstly, the passage claims that the new plan will be beneficial for the company as an employee do the same work as do in five days time and the added employee will do extra work on the expense of total money they use to pay for their current employee who works five hours a day. But, the lecturer points out that the profit seems vulnerable as the profit may be deducted from the potential health insurance and cost for the increased space.
Secondly, the passage told us that there would be more job opportunities for the people as the same task can be shared by many people. The lecture undermines this point by acknowledging possible circumstances not to hire other employees by the company as they make a profit without additional effort.
At last, the lecture doubts the new policy will make the employee personal life better as supposed by the passage. He claims that the new policy may not make the quality of the employee better rather it might their life miserable by losing their skill to job and vulnerable to kick out from the company in the financial downplay.
In conclusion, the lecture sums up that the four days work plan may not be fruitful as supposed by the passage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 320, 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.
...d more job opportunity will be created. The claims seem denied by the lecture. ...
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Line 5, column 215, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...work on the expense of total money they use to pay for their current employee who w...
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Line 13, column 88, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
... make the employee personal life better as supposed by the passage. He claims that...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1294.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 273.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73992673993 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49243646477 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487179487179 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 393.3 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.0291060713 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.4 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.315171898151 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114448049035 0.0996497079465 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11504376897 0.0662205650399 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172483767147 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0935557101485 0.0443174109184 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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