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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made reading passage.
Both the reading and lecture discuss whether the companies should shortened a working day or not. The former argues that there are three benefits to country, companies and employees by doing so, but the latter contradicts each of these points.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that companies would increase the profit by reducing workweek through the error-prone employees in the similar pays, and four-day employees would only paid 80% of the normal pay ,so hiring more staff could ensure the same of work, which reduces the extra cost of company. However, the professors contends that, if companies hiring new staff costs of companies will be proliferate, hiring additional staff mean more much money will be involve in training and medicals care of new staff, and also has to make more office compartments for new employees, which will be cut out from companies profit. The health benefits for companies will be similar either four- days worker or five days worker.
Second of all, the texts asserts that the country will benefit in total as it helps to eradicate unemployment rates through hiring new employee at 80% rate due four week employees shorter full-time in a week. In contrast, the listening counters that companies will be add overtime strategy to avoid its extra cost. The companies will expect for same amount of work in five day as four days in week, and offer extra money for remaining days. It quite creates more unpleasant to countries economy.
Finally, the passages asserts that the employees will get chances to free invest in personal life, can spend quality life with families, if working hours will reduced to four days per week, Nevertheless, like two suggestions before, the professor in his lecture proclaims that this views is not feasible because employees job stability will be reduce, which harms the individual employees chances to advancing in their career. The economic of individual will be inclined because the companies will promotes for five days workers to management and supervision entire work week.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 225, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...es would only paid 80% of the normal pay ,so hiring more staff could ensure the sa...
^^
Line 5, column 444, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...offer extra money for remaining days. It quite creates more unpleasant to countri...
^^
Line 6, column 160, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...fe with families, if working hours will reduced to four days per week, Nevertheless, li...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 498, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'promote'
Suggestion: promote
... be inclined because the companies will promotes for five days workers to management and...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, as to, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1728.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 338.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1124260355 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51720733382 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573964497041 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 419.366225166 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 113.206167516 49.2860985944 230% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 157.090909091 110.228320801 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.7272727273 21.698381199 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.90909090909 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.404865569282 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168435258329 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0994890619334 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267164363339 0.162205337803 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463898374711 0.0443174109184 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 13.3589403974 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 225, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...es would only paid 80% of the normal pay ,so hiring more staff could ensure the sa...
^^
Line 5, column 444, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...offer extra money for remaining days. It quite creates more unpleasant to countri...
^^
Line 6, column 160, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...fe with families, if working hours will reduced to four days per week, Nevertheless, li...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 498, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'promote'
Suggestion: promote
... be inclined because the companies will promotes for five days workers to management and...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, as to, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1728.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 338.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1124260355 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51720733382 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573964497041 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 419.366225166 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 113.206167516 49.2860985944 230% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 157.090909091 110.228320801 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.7272727273 21.698381199 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.90909090909 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.404865569282 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168435258329 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0994890619334 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267164363339 0.162205337803 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463898374711 0.0443174109184 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 13.3589403974 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.