Four-day Workweek advantages and disadvantages
The reading and lecture both discuss about the effects of introducing a four-day workweek in United States. The author of the reading feels that there are several benefits to such an arrangement and discusses three of them. The lecturer challenges the benefits stated by the author. He is of the opinion that a four-day workweek has disadvantages will I will explore in the below essay.
To begin with, the author states that decreasing the work time of an employee for a docked pay would actually be beneficial for the company in terms of profits earned. The article mentions that in doing so, the employees will be relaxed and less errors which require expensive handling will not be required. This specific point is challenged by the lecturer. He argues that hiring more workers won't necessarily benefit the company. In fact, additional costs incurred for the training of new workers and providing them with health benefits will be much larger. Additionally, he says new employees will require more office space and equipments like computers which will in turn be reduced from the company's overall profits.
Secondly, the writer suggests that hiring of new workers will assist in reducing the unemployment rates of the country. In the article, it is said that if employees start working a four day workweek, some of their workload can be given to a newly hired employee. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that the companies will be highly reluctant to hire new employees because of the additional costs as stated in the above paragraph. And as a result, the existing employees will be forced to work overtime to complete their work share. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that the company might expect the employees to complete a five-day task in four days. This would really turn the tables around and make the conditions unpleasant for the existing employees.
Finally, the author posits that individual employees will be more beneficial as a result of a four-day workweek. This is because in exchange of less salary, they get more time to explore. They could spend this free time to improve their quality of life. In contrast, the author posits that having a four-day workweek is not free of risks. And this would hamper the employee's quality of life especially if we talk about job stability and career advancement options. He notes that, in case of an economic crisis, these employees will be the first ones to lose the job over a full-time working employee. Also, when it comes to promotion, the employees who work for five days will be preferred as they can provide consistent supervision. As a result, this will also negatively affect the career of a four-day working employee.
So to conclude, the lecturer is of the opinion that a four-day workweek will not make any profits for the company, increase employment rates or improve quality of life.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-20 | Hello GRE | 80 | view |
| 2024-03-25 | TANVIR SIDDIKE MOIN | 70 | view |
| 2023-07-17 | nusybah | 78 | view |
| 2023-07-01 | Hrushikesh_Vaddoriya | 3 | view |
| 2023-07-01 | Hrushikesh_Vaddoriya | 3 | view |
- Advantages and disadvantages of Online Communal Encyclopedias 85
- TOEFL Independent Essay Do you agree or disagree with Playing computer games is a waste of time It should not be allowed for children 70
- Why dinosaurs are not considered to be endotherms 70
- Four day Workweek advantages and disadvantages 73
- At universities and colleges sports and social activities are just as important as classes and libraries and should receive equal financial support 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 225, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...rrangement and discusses three of them. The lecturer challenges the benefits stated...
^^^
Line 3, column 242, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun errors is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...g so, the employees will be relaxed and less errors which require expensive handling...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, in contrast, in fact, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 5.04856512141 436% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 30.3222958057 201% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2414.0 1373.03311258 176% => OK
No of words: 486.0 270.72406181 180% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9670781893 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.04702891845 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6363605838 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 145.348785872 162% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48353909465 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 737.1 419.366225166 176% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 3.25607064018 399% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 13.0662251656 191% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.7204608264 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.56 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.44 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.12 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200235243908 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0752101046212 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111962208883 0.0662205650399 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153734928646 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0946854214066 0.0443174109184 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 63.6247240618 190% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.