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, chances of errors in their work will reduce. In addition, company can hire more staff for same amount of 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 requirement and more computers in the company.
Secondly, the reading states that, this offering 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 in addition, the 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 economic bad times of company, the four-days employees will be the first to lose their jobs 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 paragraph with the three effective arguments.
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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: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1704.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22699386503 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59561409707 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524539877301 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 506.7 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9241545831 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.5 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.375 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.875 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 0.294711751414 0.272083759551 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0988447570807 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102681447604 0.0662205650399 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156217673168 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0975699895753 0.0443174109184 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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