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.
Company X claims that switching to 4-day workweek will help to increase both profits and employee morale. Stated in this way, the argument fails to mention several key factors, reveals several instances of poor reasoning and ill-defined terminology and distorts the view of the situation by manipulating facts and by providing weak evidences. To support the claim, Company X reasons that profits can be increased by shutting down offices on Fridays and employee morale can be boosted by reducing commuting time to and from work each week. However, careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the Company X's conclusion. Hence, the argument seems incomplete or unsubstantiated.
Firstly, the company assumes that commuting time of work each week will boost employee morale but increasing work hours from 8 hours per day to 10 hours per day will have no effect on employee. Does working for 10 hours decrease the employee morale? Working for 10 hours can reduce employee efficacy and eventually lead to decrease in morale. This is a mere assumption made without much solid ground. The argument would have been more convincing if it explicitly stated that provisions like breaks and refreshments are provided to the employee to improve productivity.
The argument also further claims that profits can be increased by shutting down offices on Fridays. Does the company ever field customers inquiries or have to provide support for its products and services? If so, customers will be unhappy if they cannot reach the company on Fridays. Does the company receive deliveries of any kind or have to interact with vendors or suppliers in any way? In such case, Friday closures could impact the company's efficiency, which could in turn impact revenue, expenses and morale. If the argument had provided evidence that it does not have to field customers or receive deliveries, then it would have been a lot more convincing to the reader.
Finally, the company believes that the profits will increase because the company will reduce expenses associated with keeping the office open on Fridays. The company assumes that it will make the same amount of revenue in 4 days that it typically makes in 5. However, the company provides no evidence about the amount of work done in 4 days. For instance, if the employee completes less work in 4 days than 5, then the company’s profits will decrease even after the office is kept closed on Fridays. Without convincing evidences to these assumptions, the reader is left with the impression that the claims made by the company are more of a wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence.
In conclusion, the company's claim is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the company must provide more concrete evidence, perhaps by way of reliable survey of profits and employee morale. Finally, to better evaluate the argument, it would be necessary to know more information about how switching to 4-day workweek will help to increase both profits and employee morale.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, then, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2563.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 498.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14658634538 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68003390511 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45983935743 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 786.6 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0940608312 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.791666667 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.322844177154 0.218282227539 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0994158282396 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104276111655 0.0701772020484 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198795927423 0.128457276422 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0800321546837 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, then, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2563.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 498.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14658634538 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68003390511 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45983935743 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 786.6 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0940608312 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.791666667 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.322844177154 0.218282227539 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0994158282396 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104276111655 0.0701772020484 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198795927423 0.128457276422 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0800321546837 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.