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 implementing 4 days a week scheme, compulsory for all employees, would benefit in terms of profit gain, as office will be closed on Friday, as well as morale enhancement by cutting down traveling time. However, argument claims this based on assumption, which has some logical fallacies that must be examine before jumping over any conclusion.
To commence with, company argues, " employees work 10 hours per day from Monday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday." The statement has no background details, such as, whether it would be beneficial for employees or not? Would it increase work load or work stress, reducing per person productivity? As staff is the most essential assets for organization, it could harm overall profit. To example, if Goggle force its workforce to do the same it would surely deteriorate its work, therefore, it gives their employees full liberty to work whenever they want and wherever they want.
Secondly, statement claims that the net income will rise by such policy, nevertheless, there is no mentioned of the how company would have benefited by this, as office would shut down for Friday but salary of employees must have paid for that time, also if the land or building is on rent, then the expense would not be less even after making Friday holiday. To make this argument concrete, more analysis is needed for the expense of the corporation.
Finally, decreasing commuting time to and from work each week would light-up the moral of workforce, as stated in the last sentence of the argument. Is the location of office being far away? How much time is required every day for travel? Is it not reliable for people working with company? Answers of these questions are ambiguous, that undermine the argument and assumed advantages of policy. Such surveys much be necessary for any evaluation.
To recapitulate, numerous invalid argument is existed in statement, which does not avail the gain profit. Henceforth, more data required for detailed assessment of claim.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 338 350
No. of Characters: 1654 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.288 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.893 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.541 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.945 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.353 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.278 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.53 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.019 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 113, Rule ID: THE_HOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'how'?
Suggestion: how
... nevertheless, there is no mentioned of the how company would have benefited by this, a...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1738.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 339.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12684365782 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70105673506 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607669616519 0.468620217663 130% => OK
syllable_count: 531.0 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.7963672915 57.8364921388 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.625 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1875 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.375 5.70786347227 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231117971885 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0666346614291 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103406547665 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116296786359 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10442377188 0.0628817314937 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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