By making best use of technology, flexible working such as working from home has been possible. Older workers as they approach retirement, young people who may want to study while they work and females with children have especially benefited from it. However, there are benefits and drawbacks of working from home. I will discuss both advantages and disadvantages of it with relevant examples.
Talking to the advantages first, one of the most positives is that you have freedom. That is to say, you don't have to bury your nose in strangers' armpits on crowded trains instead you can unwind on sofa watching movies and work in pyjamas at home. Undeniably, it can create good work and life balance.
Another tangible benefit is the potential to save money in terms of office space, which is one of the biggest overheads for small and medium sized businesses. In other words, the rising cost of office spaces eats into company profits. One less work station could mean one step closer towards moving to smaller site.
Turning to the other side of the argument, one of the major drawbacks is that you are less likely to be promoted since companies still reward presenteeism. What I mean by this is that, managers often rate those at office to be more dependable and industrious, regardless of the quality of their work. So visibility creates the illusion of value. For instance, being last one to leave the office impresses bosses even if you are larking around on facebook.
Another potential drawback is financial and emotional. Take travel for instance. You are paying for travel to and from home. Over and above that, your insurance may demand higher premium if they know you are driving long distances twice a week to work based address. Emotionally, how strong will be your marriage be seeing your partner for just 3 days 4 nights a week? And a voice on phone for a few minutes is no substitute for sitting on the sofa together all evening.
To sum up, there are clearly positives and negatives of working from home. I personally believe that it is not an easy option.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 4, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'making the best'.
Suggestion: making the best
By making best use of technology, flexible working suc...
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Line 3, column 106, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...t you have freedom. That is to say, you dont have to bury your nose in strangers arm...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, so, still, while, for instance, i mean, such as, in other words, to sum up, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1728.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 358.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82681564246 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51654740267 2.80592935109 90% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608938547486 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.384769539078 520% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7317288173 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.5454545455 106.682146367 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2727272727 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22727272727 7.06120827912 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30196910536 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0858467210196 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110598795173 0.0667982634062 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156007281027 0.151304729494 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.149029164701 0.056905535591 262% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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