TOEFL integrated writing: work a four-day week.

The reading passage is discussing the advantages of an option that promote employees in the United States to work four days a week instead of five days at a subtle difference in their salary, where they can still get eighty percent of their normal pay. The listening passage however, casts doubts on those advantages.

First of all, according to the lecturer,in such a case companies would be definitely loosing money because they might need to hire more employees to compensate the work. Therefore they would need to pay more money for training processes. Moreover, he points out that medical ins...

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Sentence: Moreover, he points out that medical insurances expenditure would anyway remain the same for employees wether they are working for four days or five.
Error: wether Suggestion: No alternate word

Sentence: As when it comes to management positions, companies would prefer employees that work five days a week for contineous surveillance of the work.
Error: contineous Suggestion: continuous

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