Nowadays, a lot of offices employ open-space designs instead of separate rooms for work.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
It is true that open-space designs has been adopted by a lot of companies recently, hence the gradual disappearance of the traditional structure. Despite some obvious benefits of this new installations relating to cost and empty space, it is my deep conviction that its drawback in terms of productivity cannot be easily outweighed.
Undeniably, this conventional method of designing has some certain merits for the offices, especially in budget and layout. The first advantage of this design is cost reduction. Instead of erecting thick walls to seperate different units, the employers can replace them with glass panels which are cheaper and help alleviate the expenditure for construction. The corporation can also benefit from open-space design since it improves the layout of the offices. This method makes the offices look not only modern but also spacious by demolishing the walls which take up a large space.
Despite the merits mentioned above, the drawbacks of this method are undeniably more significant. An obvious disadvantage of open-space offices is distraction. Having no walls means the employees are aware of the events happening around them, some of which catch their attention easily and it takes a considerable amount of time to get back to focus mode. This will undoubtedly alleviate the efficiency. Another drawback of this design is the lack of privacy. Some people prefers working in private areas as they can focus immersely on their tasks and are not under supervision. Therefore, the lack of privacy may also results in reduction in productivity as well. Since a company should take productivity as their top-priority, these disadvantages totally outweigh the benefits.
In conclusion, although open-space design does play a role in helping the company reduce their cost and improve the overall layout, the problem relating to productivity still presents. Therefore, as long as there is a solution to this, the disadvantage cannot be easily outweighed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'walls'' or 'wall's'?
Suggestion: walls'; wall's
...space offices is distraction. Having no walls means the employees are aware of the ev...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, look, may, so, still, therefore, well, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1679.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 311.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39871382637 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00677990305 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581993569132 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 531.9 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4291312523 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7647058824 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2941176471 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284523804517 0.244688304435 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.090402788662 0.084324248473 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0588271397136 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16236876239 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431766544202 0.056905535591 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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