4-Day Workweek
The popular 5-day workweek has long been a staple in U.S. business. With employees working 8 hours a day for a total of 40 hours a week, it has been seen as a model of efficiency. However, some companies and government agencies have begun converting to a 10-hour-a-day, 4-day workweek. This conversion offers numerous benefits to both businesses and employees and should be seriously considered.
First, a 4-day workweek will alleviate some considerable expenses for the average employee. A recent national survey found that 34% of prospective employees turned down job offers because of long commutes to work. With the high cost of gas and vehicle maintenance, eliminating one day’s driving per week will reduce expenses by quite a bit, making the idea of working far from home more appealing and giving employees the opportunity to use the money saved to cover other, more pressing costs.
Second, reducing the number of working days will lower the operating costs of most businesses; employers won’t need to keep their business open an extra day. This will result in less money spent on fixed expenses, such as lighting and air conditioning, helping to improve a company’s profitability. By eliminating one business day, companies will not only save significantly on operating expenses but also have the additional benefit of a more efficient workforce continually energized with a 3-day weekend.
Third, a 4-day workweek will improve the ability of employees to spend time with their families. Work is often cited as the major reason why parents don’t spend time with their children and one reason why some stop working. With a reduced workweek, they will spend an extra day with their children and other loved ones, helping to improve their overall quality of life and thus sending them back to work happier.
The passage states that converting an 8 hours a day 5 day work week to 10 hours a day 4 day work week serves a lot of benefits to both employees and businesses & provides 3 reasons to justify this. However, the professor claims that even though this has some benefits, such a dramatic change is not required.
First, the author claims that this change would save money considerably for an average employee. But, the professor contends that the money saved wont make a huge difference. Considering a case where a person commutes 30 miles daily to work, he will be saving only 15 to 20 dollars overall on a journey. This sums to 850 dollars per year. According to the professor, these savings are very minimalistic to justify such a dramatic change.
Second, the passage claims that the change would lower the operating costs of most businesses. However, the professor claims that changing the business open hours from 5 days a week to 4 days a week would result in approximately 20% loss in business. Even though with the new model the business would be open for an extra 2 hours, it would be during late in the evening. As a result, most of the consumers would have gone home. Thus, this won’t make up when compared to the old model. The professor further adds that saving 100 dollars on the operating cost won’t make up for the loss of 20% that the business would incure if it adopts the new model.
Third, the author claims that this adaptation would improve the ability of employees to spend time with their families. But, the author avers that this won’t be a significant addition. In the new model, as stated earlier, the parents will have to work 4 days for 10 hours. For those parents who have young children at home it will be difficult for them to find a day care which is open till late in the evening. On the other hand, parents whose children are school going wont be able to take the benefit of the day off as their children would be in schools for a half of that day.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 64, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
... converting an 8 hours a day 5 day work week to 10 hours a day 4 day work week serve...
^^^^
Line 1, column 98, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
... work week to 10 hours a day 4 day work week serves a lot of benefits to both employ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1645.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 362.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.54419889503 5.08290768461 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45214966263 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497237569061 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 491.4 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6973269467 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.3888888889 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1111111111 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44444444444 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233633852408 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.072379466728 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0960413079039 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162826871964 0.162205337803 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106844119982 0.0443174109184 241% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.05 12.2367328918 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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