In many countries, people are spending more hours at their workplace. Why is that? Is that a negative and positive development?
Working overtime has become popular among employees in many countries recently. The reasons for this tendency are mainly associated with the increased competitiveness and cost of living. I believe that this development imposes negative impacts on employees’ mental and physical health.
There are two primary driving forces behind workaholism. The first one is probably related to the competitive modern society. As many governments have emphasized the crucial role of education, more residents are eligible to receive education, leading to several able and skillful applicants for the same position. Additionally, the introduction of robots and automation has revolutionized many jobs in terms of labor demand. Manufacture perfectly exemplifies this when automation has replaced production workers in many companies. The declining amount of works offered undoubtedly means an increasing level of competitiveness. Another compelling reason is the escalating cost of living. Due to the substantial financial burdens, it becomes an obligation for employees to work overtime for survival and the well-being of their families. A salient example can be observed in many big cities where many low-income individuals struggling to handle their living expenses.
Workaholism has adverse impacts on employee’s health both physically and mentally. Most of the workers who dedicate significant work commitment would sacrifice their healthy eating habits. Takeaway becomes their regular choice instead of home-cooked meals due to the deficiency of time for preparation. These employees also spend insufficient amounts of time exercising to enhance their stamina and resistance. Additionally, depression and pressure are increasingly popular among workaholics. For instance, suicide rates in Korea and Japan are alarmingly high among people stressed with their works. Such a tendency is mainly because they barely have opportunities to pursue their hobbies and spend time releasing stress with their friends and families.
In conclusion, excessive work commitment among employees in many countries is mainly because of the rising living expenses and competitiveness. From my perspective, this trend would lead to catastrophic consequences in worker’s mental and physical health. I would suggest that corporations should incentivize employees to achieve work-life balance for sustainable development.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, so, well, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.3376753507 204% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2057.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 6.03225806452 5.12529762239 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20143553167 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615835777126 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.8081238615 49.4020404114 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5 20.7667163134 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.45454545455 7.06120827912 35% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.166208249213 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419992345102 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0404090772792 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0955057345865 0.151304729494 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309724166624 0.056905535591 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.87 50.2224549098 61% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.4 12.4159519038 140% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.35 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 78.4519038076 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => 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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