Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours per day from Monday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday. Although the policy is new,Company X claims that the policy will help to increase profits by shutting down offices on Fridays and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The stated company wants a 4-day workweek for its employees rather than 5-day workweek. The company states the reason for doing so is that it will increase the company profits and boost employee’s morale by reducing the commute time. However before taking this decision there are few unstated assumptions that the company should look into before reducing the workweek.
The company’s policy want to cut off friday from its workweek. One of the reasons mentioned by the company is that it will increase profits of the company.But what if there is some urgent work on Friday? What if some international client visiting the company had a flight delay so had to come on Friday? If this happens then there will be no one in the company to address them on Friday. Sometimes there is an urgency of work and the client wants the comapany to finish the work till the end of week but since the company has less days to work upon the client’s task the client may cancel the deal with the company .Although the company’s policy increases each day work hours but certain work cannot be done until they do not get approval from a corresponding company with whom they are working.Suppose the approval gets delayed and the the approval just comes one day before and if that day is Thursday then the employees need to be present in the company on Friday to do further work after approval. So if any of the above scenarios take place then it will result in losses for the company.
The company states that reducing workweek will boost employees morale since they have to travel less.What if there is a tiny percentage of employees who stay away from the office? What if most of the employees live in the vicinity of the company and don’t have travel issues .If this is the case then certainly travelling wouldn’t be a problem for the employees. Then employees morale might not get affected by the commute time.
The company states that employees morale will get boosted due to reduced work week. What if there are certain government regulations that any company cannot make employees work for more 8-9 hours? If this is true then the company’s new policy would be illegal because extra working hours would be a defiance of the government’s labour code. What if the employees are more inclined towards working 8 hours rather than 10 hours ? What if the employees want more work life balance although having three off days. It has also been proved that working according to your capacity can produce great results.
So the company needs to address the unstated assumptions mentioned above and do more research before increasing the work week.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 460 350
No. of Characters: 2137 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.631 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.646 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.305 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.598 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.85 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.381 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.155 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 218, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...and boost employee’s morale by reducing the commute time. However before taking this decisi...
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Line 1, column 236, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...’s morale by reducing the commute time. However before taking this decision there are f...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ook into before reducing the workweek. The company’s policy want to cut off fr...
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Line 3, column 157, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: But
...it will increase profits of the company.But what if there is some urgent work on Fr...
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Line 3, column 306, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... flight delay so had to come on Friday? If this happens then there will be no one ...
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Line 3, column 523, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ll the end of week but since the company has less days to work upon the client’s ...
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Line 3, column 529, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun days is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... end of week but since the company has less days to work upon the client’s task the...
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Line 3, column 617, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ent may cancel the deal with the company .Although the company’s policy increases ...
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Line 3, column 619, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Although
...t may cancel the deal with the company .Although the company’s policy increases each day...
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Suggestion: Suppose
...ding company with whom they are working.Suppose the approval gets delayed and the the a...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...g.Suppose the approval gets delayed and the the approval just comes one day before and ...
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Line 3, column 836, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...g.Suppose the approval gets delayed and the the approval just comes one day before and ...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...will result in losses for the company. The company states that reducing workwee...
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Line 5, column 102, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
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Suggestion: What
...s morale since they have to travel less.What if there is a tiny percentage of emplo...
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Line 5, column 106, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rale since they have to travel less.What if there is a tiny percentage of employe...
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Line 5, column 277, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...the company and don’t have travel issues .If this is the case then certainly trave...
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Line 5, column 279, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
...e company and don’t have travel issues .If this is the case then certainly travell...
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Line 5, column 370, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n’t be a problem for the employees. Then employees morale might not get affected ...
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Line 5, column 372, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
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Line 5, column 415, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
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...loyees morale might not get affected by the commute time. The company states that empl...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... not get affected by the commute time. The company states that employees moral...
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Line 7, column 26, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ur capacity can produce great results. So the company needs to address the uns...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2197.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 455.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82857142857 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48178866329 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446153846154 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 118.513274032 57.8364921388 205% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 115.631578947 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9473684211 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.26315789474 5.70786347227 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 23.0 5.25449101796 438% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35881970416 0.218282227539 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118949980387 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806301796278 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194932233246 0.128457276422 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0928604972758 0.0628817314937 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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