Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours per day from Monday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday. Although the policy is new, Company X claims that the policy will help to increase profits by shutting down offices on Fridays and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author contends in the mentioned argument that switching to 4-day workweek of 10 hours from 5 day workweek of 8 hours per day will increase the profits of the company as it will boost the morale of the employees due to reduced commuting time.From my perspective I completely disagree with this claim as it rests on invalid assumptions which are also incomplete. Author has failed to gather enough information before asserting this claim. The reason for my disagreement with the author has been explicated in the below mentioned paragraphs.
Firstly, I would like to bring up the issue with the assumptions that author has made about working 10 hours for 4 days will be more productive than 8 hours for 5 days. Author fails to look at the bigger picture and his approach is very myopic. He fails to take into account the fatigue that overpowers the human vigor which comes with long working hours. Most of the people are unable to show the same level of focus or maintain the same level of concentration at work for increased duration in time. Strained eyes, if its a job where employee is required to work with the bright screens or may it be tired muscles, if the job demands physical strength, in both the cases there is a possibility that though the company is looking for increased productivity, the results may turn otherwise.
Secondly, as stated by the author, this policy is new. Hence I would like to bring an attention to the fact that there is no proof or assurity that this policy will provide a sure shot boom in terms of profit as it is a fledgling one. Thus in order to make the mentioned claim more cogent author should have explicated a substantial precedent in the argument where it has been a success taking any reference of some company Y which sells similar product and has succeeded with this policy. That point would definitely bolster author's point to some extent.
Thirdly, Author's claim does not take into consideration the other important factors which are responsible for increasing a company's profits which are, the products that they are selling, the market influence on the revenue, the government's role, availability of raw materials etc. Therefore considering only one factor and that is the increased productivity of Employees by reducing number of work days is not persuasive enough. Employee productivity is indeed an important factor but not the sole parameter to define the increment in profit. Also, reduced working days do not guarantee the success in terms of profit either, as evident in my essay.
Additionally, this strategy of replacing 5-day workweek with 4- day workweek will boost employee's morale Company as it saves the efforts and commute time is again a moot point. This point can be challenged as author has once again failed to understand that there are various other motivations that employee could be seeking for. Something that would boost his zeal and enthusiasm towards work. There is a fair possibility that employee has absolutely no issues with commute time instead he is looking for some other incentives like wage hike, a promotion or seeking for an oppertunity to work in their business established in foreign land.
Hence, even though the argument maintained by the author looks appealing in the first look but has many inline flaws as the author has based his assumptions on fallacious pillars or reasons which are also incomplete and lack the insightful information to make such claim. All the loopholes stated in the essay are full fledged proof for my opinion.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
need some contents for 'the policy will help to increase profits by shutting down offices on Fridays'
and 'and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week.'
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 600 350
No. of Characters: 2896 1500
No. of Different Words: 289 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.949 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.827 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.653 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 196 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 103 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.905 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.524 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.291 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 103, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'workweek' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'workweeks'.
Suggestion: workweeks
...o 4-day workweek of 10 hours from 5 day workweek of 8 hours per day will increase the pr...
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Line 2, column 163, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...per day will increase the profits of the company as it will boost the morale of t...
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Line 3, column 84, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: From
...employees due to reduced commuting time.From my perspective I completely disagree wi...
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Line 3, column 156, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... disagree with this claim as it rests on invalid assumptions which are also incom...
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Line 4, column 154, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...is claim. The reason for my disagreement with the author has been explicated in t...
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Line 9, column 160, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ration at work for increased duration in time. Strained eyes, if its a job where ...
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Line 10, column 25, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...d duration in time. Strained eyes, if its a job where employee is required to wor...
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Line 10, column 159, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s, if the job demands physical strength, in both the cases there is a possibility...
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Line 14, column 56, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ated by the author, this policy is new. Hence I would like to bring an attention to t...
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Line 15, column 71, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...rms of profit as it is a fledgling one. Thus in order to make the mentioned claim mo...
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Line 15, column 154, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ore cogent author should have explicated a substantial precedent in the argument ...
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Line 20, column 78, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...he market influence on the revenue, the governments role, availability of raw materials etc...
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Line 20, column 130, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...role, availability of raw materials etc. Therefore considering only one factor an...
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Line 27, column 164, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o issues with commute time instead he is looking for some other incentives like w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2993.0 2260.96107784 132% => OK
No of words: 599.0 441.139720559 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99666110184 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94716853372 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68339416312 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 296.0 204.123752495 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494156928214 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 909.0 705.55239521 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.2069354282 57.8364921388 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.045454545 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2272727273 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63636363636 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 24.0 5.15768463074 465% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255802574352 0.218282227539 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710276302878 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0935844164384 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0732243269198 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10233392954 0.0628817314937 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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