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 company argues that a four day work week reduces commuting time and keeps the office closed on the friday, which will translate to increased profits and boosted morale the argument is with holes and unwarranted assumptions which make it highly flawed.
The company agrees that the policy is new. So it will be very difficult to find any evidence which bolsters the argument that the shutting down of offices on fridays will increase profits. It can be clearly seen that the total hours the office will be working is not going to change. The expenses, of keeping the workplace open for a week, therefore will not decrease even for the slightest amount and there are fair chances that it will actually increase. The expense for lighting can increase if the office is to be kept to late nights or early mornings than the day time. The assumption that the expense will decrease is highly flawed and unrealistic.
Additionally the argument that the commuting time will decrease is an assumption which need evidence to be validated. Even though it will require the employees to commute only four days a week, commuting at the unusual times, early or late, of the day can make it difficult if they are relying on the public transport. For this assumption to be validated the commuting data of the employees are necessary (who all commutes in private vehicles and who all depends on public transport) and should be seen whether plausible with the timetable of existing facilities.
Along with that it is assumed that the reduction in commuting time alone will boost the morale of the employees. The proposed plan robs them daily of the time they could have spent with their children and family. This could make them unavailable to the family four days a week and in fact can adversely affect the morale of the employees. To have this assumption back the argument a survey should be taken among the employees to enquire whether the proposed plan is really welcomed by them.
Along with that a protracted working day can result in a state of lethargy which in turn make them less efficient. It had been an established policy to devote one third of the day to work, rest and other activities each. Without a serious research backed by clear evidence it cannot be assumed that the profit will increase regardless of the apparent effects of a lengthy work day.
In short it can be clearly seen that the argument is rife with spurious assumptions which renders it less convincing and all the more skeptical.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'if', 'really', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'in fact', 'in short']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.19347826087 0.25644967241 75% => OK
Verbs: 0.191304347826 0.15541462614 123% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0695652173913 0.0836205057962 83% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0521739130435 0.0520304965353 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0391304347826 0.0272364105082 144% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.123913043478 0.125424944231 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0608695652174 0.0416121511921 146% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.50661739941 2.79052419416 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0282608695652 0.026700313972 106% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.136956521739 0.113004496875 121% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0478260869565 0.0255425247493 187% => Less modal verbs wanted (like 'must , shall , will , should , would , can , could , may , and might').
WH_determiners: 0.0173913043478 0.0127820249294 136% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2531.0 2731.13054187 93% => OK
No of words: 432.0 446.07635468 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.8587962963 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.331018518519 0.378187486979 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.259259259259 0.287650121315 90% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.178240740741 0.208842608468 85% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.106481481481 0.135150697306 79% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50661739941 2.79052419416 90% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 207.018472906 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460648148148 0.469332199767 98% => OK
Word variations: 50.4831826544 52.1807786196 97% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.8279586003 57.7814097925 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.611111111 141.986410481 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.444444444444 0.724660767414 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 49.9259259259 51.9672348444 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.33846153846 1.8405768891 73% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.368242743391 0.441005458295 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.156894560573 0.135418324435 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0706526186273 0.0829849096947 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.673729500293 0.58762219726 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.131741145328 0.147661913831 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.183800592252 0.193483328276 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662832780898 0.0970749176394 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.445971500209 0.42659136922 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.132191849072 0.0774707102158 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242243065393 0.312017818177 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0838783123059 0.0698173142475 120% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.33743842365 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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