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 main idea of both the passage and the lecture is about offering the option to employers who can work a four-day workweek. In this line of thought, the reading states that four day work week is a good offer which can give to employees because of increasing company profits, decreasing unemployment rate for the country and investing more time for the individual company. The lecturer, on the other hand, casts doubt on all of the 3 episodes of arguments mentioned in the passage, believing that none of these strategies are practical and lead to the real world. In the rest of the passage, a comparison between them is provided.
First of all, the reading and the listening materials talk about company profit. The author explains that it increases because employees would more rest and alert, and it makes them more accurate and then costly errors in decreased. Also, the passage describes that Hiring additional staff can ensure that accomplishing the same amount of work would not result in additional payroll costs. Thus, the author contends that this option can growing company benefits. On the contrary, the lecturer believes that it can impose much more money to each company. He states that health cost is not different for 4 or 5 days’ work week, and adding more employees, needs more office space and computers. This directly contradicts what the passage indicates.
Second, both the text and the talk discuss decreasing the unemployment rate. The author points out that it has an advantage for the government because if full-time workers cut their work they to four days, their rest loads should be ended by other employees which hired. Therefore, the author elaborates that government benefit ensures in this option. However, the lecturer notes that using this option may not adding jobs, also make available job boring because, as mentioned before, hiring new employees cut company profits. As a result, the company’s leader may request their workers to do more even in overtime. This was another place where experience contradicted the theory.
Eventually, giving more free time to employees which are discussed by both the passage and the lecture. The author mentions that employees who could make a tradeoff between getting less salary against have more free time for improved quality of life and spend more time with his family. Hence, the author suggests that four days’ work week option effects on time of leisure for individual employees. The lecturer rebuts this argument. The lecturer states that it has some risks such as decreasing job stability, lose their job, reducing chances for more advances in their career, and loose management respect. This opinion directly contradicts the passage presented and making it infeasible.
Sum up, although the passage provides some reasons for offering four days’ work week against five days working the lecture opposes about the effectiveness and possibility of those reasons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 423, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, thus, in addition, such as, as a result, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2491.0 1373.03311258 181% => OK
No of words: 479.0 270.72406181 177% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20041753653 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67825486995 4.04702891845 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59538674515 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 145.348785872 172% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521920668058 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 758.7 419.366225166 181% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.23620309051 206% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 13.0662251656 184% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0845310006 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.791666667 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9583333333 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.70833333333 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250317432805 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663458711931 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809782768789 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173860769478 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.064429278615 0.0443174109184 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 63.6247240618 189% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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