Company x has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hour per day from Monday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday….reducing commuting time to and from work each week
Various organizations try different ways to cut on their expenses while keeping the employees happy. The company X here has tried to come up with something similar. The idea to provide one extra day off by offsetting a couple of extra working hours at first seems quite reasonable. However, this argument suffers from lack of support needed to justify the claims.
First of all it is not clear from the argument weather the company has made an inquiry into the fact that the main portion of expenses incurred are due to running office in daytime. It is possible that increasing working hours by 2 hours per day would require burning artificial lights more than the usual. And the heat generated would also lead to more air conditioning of the place. This would instead of reducing the expenses would lead to an increase. Keeping in mind that during the day all these expenses would not have occurred in the first place.
The company has linked reduction in the number of days and increase in the working hours per day with increasing the morale of the employees by reducing their commuting time. This argument is nowhere supported by any study that claims that employee morale is affected by the commuting time. The argument on the other hand may be flawed in this assumption. It may be that increasing number of hours per day may lead to skewing of work-life balance of the employees. And would result in low output because of increased dissatisfaction amongst the employees resulting in low output and low profits.
To summarize the argument the company has not provided amicable evidence for its claims to increase the working hours. And on analysis it seems that it may have upend the expected results without any supporting studies to prove otherwise.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 162, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'upended'.
Suggestion: upended
...d on analysis it seems that it may have upend the expected results without any suppor...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'while', 'first of all', 'in the first place', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.239747634069 0.25644967241 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.179810725552 0.15541462614 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0851735015773 0.0836205057962 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0347003154574 0.0520304965353 67% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0252365930599 0.0272364105082 93% => OK
Prepositions: 0.160883280757 0.125424944231 128% => OK
Participles: 0.0757097791798 0.0416121511921 182% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.54882107824 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0347003154574 0.026700313972 130% => OK
Particles: 0.00315457413249 0.001811407834 174% => OK
Determiners: 0.123028391167 0.113004496875 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0315457413249 0.0255425247493 124% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00315457413249 0.0127820249294 25% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1768.0 2731.13054187 65% => OK
No of words: 300.0 446.07635468 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.89333333333 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.57801047555 91% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.356666666667 0.378187486979 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.286666666667 0.287650121315 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.183333333333 0.208842608468 88% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0933333333333 0.135150697306 69% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54882107824 2.79052419416 91% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 207.018472906 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506666666667 0.469332199767 108% => OK
Word variations: 50.6481186303 52.1807786196 97% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 18.75 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6177385282 57.7814097925 58% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.5 141.986410481 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 23.2022227129 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.625 0.724660767414 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 47.4166666667 51.9672348444 91% => OK
Elegance: 1.98684210526 1.8405768891 108% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248943797088 0.441005458295 56% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.120292051858 0.135418324435 89% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0773775332354 0.0829849096947 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.557234888604 0.58762219726 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.100531316398 0.147661913831 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113592803461 0.193483328276 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0592683870221 0.0970749176394 61% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.413120559795 0.42659136922 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0880472683622 0.0774707102158 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190778085751 0.312017818177 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0292356987855 0.0698173142475 42% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.82389162562 177% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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