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 reading and lecture both are about number of working days in the week, four days or five days. The reading states that working four days in a week will benefit economy as a whole, companies and employees, whereas the lecture states that the four days working is not beneficial. In addition, lecturer mentions several reasons on three arguments made by the author of reading paragraph.
First of all, according to the reading, the shortened week will increase the profit of company as employees will feel relaxed and rested, and hence, changes of errors in their work will reduce. In addition, company can hire more staff for same money as four-day employee will be paid only 80 percent of the nominal rate. However, the lecturer disputes this point. According to the lecturer, hiring more staff will need more training and health care of staff owing to cut the company’s profit. Furthermore, more staff means more space and more computers in the company.
Secondly, the reading states that, this offering this option will reduce the country’s unemployment rates. Moreover, new employees will be hired at only 80 percent rate. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this argument. He argues that this will make jobs unavailable, which in turn force the current employee to work overtime and company will raise expectation from the employees, making no job creation.
Lastly, the reading states that this offer will improve the individual employee lives giving them extra time to spend with their family and friends. On the other hand, the lecturer mentions about the loss in job stability due to more free time. Furthermore, lecturer claims that during the bad time of
company, the four days employees will be the first to fire from company, since the five-day employees will be used for management purposes as they devote more time to company.
In conclusion, the lecturer challenged the author of reading with the three effective arguments.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 15, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Company
...er claims that during the bad time of company, the four days employees will be the fi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, hence, however, lastly, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, whereas, in addition, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1656.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 319.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19122257053 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55863904823 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520376175549 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.4542736832 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.5 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9375 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.875 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287343954474 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971976410694 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103670282385 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143783958033 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0995448780342 0.0443174109184 225% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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