In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option. The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company profits. For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate. Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities.
The article states that reducing the job hour from 5 days of work to 4 days of work will be beneficial to the company and the individual, and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that they are not as beneficial as the article suggests and refutes each of the author’s responses.
First, the reading claims that reducing the work load per week will increase the profit of the company and reduces the errors performed by the employees. The professor refutes this point by saying that this will in turn decline the profit of the company. He states that introducing the new employee will lead to increase the cost for training and medical cost offered to these employees. Further, addition of new employees will require more office space and more computers that will hinder the profit of the company. For these reasons, the lecturer thinks that addition of new employees will result in declining of profit rather than increasing.
Second, the article posits that reduction in work hour will help to decrease the unemployment rate. However, the professor argues that this might not be the case. According to the professor, the company might ask the employee to work overtime and compensate for the loss of work hour. The company might raise the expectation that the employee can complete their five-day work in four days. Thus, there might not be new job openings and even degrade the current job condition.
Third, the reading says that the it will increase the quality of life of an individual. The individuals can spend more time with their families and have strong emotional attachment with their family members. The professor opposes this point by explaining that this in turn reduces the quality of life of an individual. The lecturer states that it reduces the job stability, and have higher chances of losing their job during economic recessions. In addition, the lecturer also says that the people working 4 days in a week have lower chances for promotion than the people working 5 days in a week.
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Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'it'?
Suggestion: the; it
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Line 4, column 319, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s the quality of life of an individual. The lecturer states that it reduces the job...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1699.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 343.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95335276968 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52816248262 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440233236152 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 508.5 419.366225166 121% => 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: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.2201075688 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.9411764706 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1764705882 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.64705882353 7.06452816374 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.314267100614 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100118014358 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0963572065796 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194290371116 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405799346393 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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