Question Type 1
Directions: Give yourself 3 minutes to read the passage.
Reading Time: 3 minutes
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 professor expresses his doubts and concerns regarding the benefits of 4 days work week. He argues that a company is not going to increase its profits by providing an option to employees to work for shorter time. Instead, he argues that it may actually increase the costs of operations of the company and there is unlikely to be any discernible benefits on the company.
The first point the lecture makes is that companies are probably forced to spend more amount of money if more people are hired. The argument that when people work for 4 days a week, they will be receiving less salary and would result in savings for the company has been vehemently contested in the lecture. It says that the recruitment costs, medical insurance costs, costs for more office desks, and increased expenditure on computers, in fact, has a possibility to dent the profitability of the company.
The professor also mentions that the existing employees, who opted for shorter working days, may get overloaded with work because companies may increase expectations from them. That means these people will get paid less amount of salary but will have to work the same hours as before.
Finally, the professor points out to the possibility of denial of promotion to people who work shorter hours. He thinks that companies may want to promote someone who works and supervises the whole week. That leads to neglect or sidelining of people who have chosen to work only for four days in a week. This will harm their career prospects.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, if, may, regarding, so, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1261.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88759689922 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55822468733 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550387596899 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 384.3 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5037514347 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.083333333 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.232101754496 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940798748787 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0758181933627 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146411091712 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0346599422154 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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