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 reading passage and the lecture are mainly about a policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek. According to the passage, it will benefit the individual companies and the employees; however, the professor in the lecture does not think it is always right.
The author suggests that the shortened workweek would help company earn more money since company can hire more employees and they would feel more rested and then make less mistakes. On the contrary, professor argues that because company needs to train employees and give them medical benefit, they also need to more spaces and more computers, so, company actually would not make a fortune from it.
The author claims that the unemployment rate will be lower because the workload of full-time employees would have to be shifted to others. Nevertheless, professor says that since hiring people for company are costly and companies would increase their expectations such like they want employees to work overtime and to finish five-day work in four days. From this perspective, the employment rate will not be reduced.
The author presents that it will improve the quality of employees' lives since they have more time to spend with their families. On the other hand, professor argues that company always like people who are more likely to work a five-day week and others who don't have are more unlikely to be promoted. So, their quality of lives will not improve.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 168, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun mistakes is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ey would feel more rested and then make less mistakes. On the contrary, professor ar...
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Line 7, column 256, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... to work a five-day week and others who dont have are more unlikely to be promoted. ...
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Line 7, column 266, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
... five-day week and others who dont have are more unlikely to be promoted. So, their...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, nevertheless, so, then, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
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: 1237.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09053497942 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43735375407 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518518518519 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 379.8 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7788062344 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.7 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.7 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283130435958 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120996027284 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0952766322849 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187035670409 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.067560707969 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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