In the United Stated, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day.
The speaker argues that the option of working 4 days a week for 80% of the normal pay will not influence companies, the country as a whole, and the employees as the way suggested in the article.
Firstly, companies will have to spend a lot more money to hire more employees because the costs of training new employees and providing medical service will increase. The company will also have to provide more working space and more computers. The extra costs generated from hiring new employees will cut into the company's profit even if they only need to pay 80% of the salary.
Secondly, the country as whole will also suffer from such a policy. Since hiring new employees has become more costly for companies for the reasons mentioned in the previous paragraph, companies will be unwilling to hire more people and also expect their current employees to work overtime or work harder so as to compensate for the increased costs. In this way, the unemployeement rate will not decline. At the same time, current jobs will become more unpleasant.
Thirdly, as for the employees, choosing to work for 4 days per week will harm their chance of career development. Employees working a four-day week are more likely to lose their job during difficult times. Companies will also tend to promote those who work five days a week to management levels. Consequently, the quality of lives of employees working four days a week will probably get worse.
According to the reasons above, the speaker cast doubt on the effectiveness of the policy of working four days a week since it will not benefit the companies, the country, and the employees as the way proposed in the article.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 306, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ployees to work overtime or work harder so as to compensate for the increased costs. In ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as for, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1397.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88461538462 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57315339459 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496503496503 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 421.2 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.5773499395 49.2860985944 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.461538462 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
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: 0.267318097164 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12256809343 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0986686000038 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186562446629 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111696041185 0.0443174109184 252% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.