Some employers offer their employees subsidized membership of gyms and sports clubs,
believing that this will make their staff healthier and thus more effective at work. Other employers
see no benefit in doing so.
Consider the arguments from both aspects of this possible debate, and reach a conclusion
Employers are always seeking ways to enhance their employees’ productivity, and subsidizing healthy pursuits may be one way of achieving this. There are arguments on both sides, however, which we will discuss here.
On the one hand, it might be said that if workers are fitter and less stressed, their working time will be more efficient, leading to higher levels of output and service. Furthermore, the work/life balance of the staff will hopefully be improved, because their leisure time will be more fulfilling.
This may even be more motivating than pay increments, perks, or financial rewards such as bonuses or incentives which may be hard to attain. Finally, feeling healthier may lead to better job satisfaction which is in itself a motivating factor.
Conversely, the problem with such leisure-based subsidies is that their efficacy is virtually impossible to quantify. For example, with target-related payments, employers can at least see whether the objectives are reached or not. It might also be said that, if this budget was spent on (for instance) on the job training or day release programmes, the employees would achieve better career progression and have better job prospects. These matters are all easier to measure, especially in performance reviews and appraisals, and may even help to reduce the risk of redundancy if the company restructures, downsizes or outsources its workforce.
Overall, it seems that, while health-related subsidies are superficially attractive, the lack of measurability is a substantial drawback. Spending funds on ongoing training would appear to be a better use of company or Human Resources budgets
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- Some employers offer their employees subsidized membership of gyms and sports clubs,believing that this will make their staff healthier and thus more effective at work. Other employerssee no benefit in doing so.Consider the arguments from both aspects of 89
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, at least, for example, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 7.48453608247 267% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 4.92783505155 284% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 5.05154639175 238% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.03092783505 231% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 18.0 32.9175257732 55% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 26.3917525773 91% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.85567010309 130% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1406.0 937.175257732 150% => OK
No of words: 258.0 206.0 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4496124031 4.54256449028 120% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 3.78020617076 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11488070751 2.54303337028 122% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 127.690721649 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635658914729 0.622605031667 102% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 290.88556701 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.41237113402 120% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.13402061856 66% => OK
Article: 4.0 0.824742268041 485% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.83505154639 163% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.463917525773 647% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 1.44329896907 139% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6804123711 95% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 16.3608247423 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 38.8808721896 44.8134815571 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.166666667 76.5299724578 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 16.8248392259 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.41666666667 4.34317383033 217% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 2.54639175258 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 7.41237113402 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.49484536082 134% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.94845360825 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153457598378 0.216113520407 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.055858985144 0.0766984524023 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499025969016 0.0603063233224 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0836645344341 0.12726935374 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644201935094 0.0580467560999 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 8.37731958763 179% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 70.7449484536 59% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 3.82989690722 230% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 7.45979381443 170% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 8.71597938144 164% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.19 7.59969072165 134% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 41.2886597938 218% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 8.62886597938 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 8.54432989691 122% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 8.15463917526 135% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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