The lecture and the reading article both discuss four days work week option. While the reading states that four days work week is beneficial, the lecture refutes this, saying there are disadvantages for shortened work week alternative.
First of all, the reading claims that four days work week is better because it is beneficial to employees, companies, and to countries. Short work week will help to increase companies' profit margins. Companies can hire more staff without extra burden on payroll. However, the lecture argues that the shortened work week option will not bring any reduction in company costs. Hiring new work force and providing training to them is time consuming and not cost effective. In addition, companies will have to provide same healthcare benefits to every employee despite their number of working days per week.
Also, the reading claims, rested and alert employees will less likely to make mistakes that could cause companies significant amount of money. There will be few overburdened and error prone employees. Employees will have good work-life balance. They get to spend extra time with their loved ones, or to pursue their interests. But, the lecture disagrees with the claim, hiring of new work force will raise the management's expectations and they will expect the same amount of work will be done in four days that took five days to complete before. Employees will end up working overtime to match the expectations.
Lastly, the reading article argues that shortened work week will help countries to lower the unemployment rate. Workload will be shared between employees. For every five part-time employees, new part-time employee can be hired with 80 percent pay rate than full time staff. on the other hand, lecture refutes this claim by pointing out that quality of life for workers will decline as the job stability will get impacted. Part time staff will be at higher risk to lose their jobs during work force reduction. Also they will be overlooked at promotion and higher preference will be given to full-time employee simply because of his/her continuous availability.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 258, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
... be hired with 80 percent pay rate than full time staff. on the other hand, lecture refut...
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Line 7, column 275, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: On
... percent pay rate than full time staff. on the other hand, lecture refutes this cl...
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Line 7, column 423, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: Part-time
...as the job stability will get impacted. Part time staff will be at higher risk to lose th...
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Line 7, column 510, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...their jobs during work force reduction. Also they will be overlooked at promotion an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, look, so, while, in addition, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 5.04856512141 396% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1782.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 343.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19533527697 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51920350203 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545189504373 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.6513997541 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.1 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.15 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.412566124991 0.272083759551 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139576721369 0.0996497079465 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549130681346 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271553064536 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0402342054708 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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