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 are both about the decision to choose four-day work a week. The author of the reading feels that this would be helpful for the employees as well as for the economy of the country. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. he is of the opinion that this system does not provide any benefits to the people and to the country.
To begin with, the author argues that four-day work will increase the productivity of the employees. The article mentions that as now they will work for less time they will get plenty of time to relax, which will increase their productivity and they will stay more alert while performing their task, which will increase company profits. this specific argument is challenged by the author. he claims that this system will cost company more rather than being beneficial for the company. Additionally he says, this system will make the company to recruit more employees meaning that company needs to spend money to give them health benefits like other employees and need to construct more office space. Hence, costing the company more money than profit.
Secondly, the writer suggests that unemployment rate will decrease in the country. In the article it is said that as the four-day employee will only work for four days then the company would require people who can work for the remaining of the days. this will make the company to hire more people,hence reducing the unemployment rate. The lecturer, however rebut this by mentioning that this system will affect the employees costly. he elaborates on this by bringing up the point that in order to avoid hiring more people company can force the current employees to work over time and the expectations of the company would increase from their workers as they will now expect the five day work to be completed in 4 days. All this thing will cost severely to the workers of the company.
Finally, the author posits that this system will improve the life of the worker. Moreover, in the article it is stated that by working for lesser time they will be able to spend more time with their family, which will improve the lifestyle of the workers. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that rather than improving the lifestyle of the workers it will be harmful for their careers. he notes that this will risk their job stability as they can be the first one to lose their job if any economic downturn happened. In addition, five days worker would be more prefered than four-day workers in the company because of this four-day workers have very little chance of getting promotion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, then, well, while, as for, in addition, in contrast, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 5.04856512141 535% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 22.412803532 219% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2159.0 1373.03311258 157% => OK
No of words: 447.0 270.72406181 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82997762864 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33346953086 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427293064877 0.540411800872 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 650.7 419.366225166 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4418096458 49.2860985944 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.80952381 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => 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: 0.281608054964 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0943562820555 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.090419801698 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197108810724 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0504028665406 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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