Integrated Writing In the United States employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day However many employees want to work a four day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so A mandatory policy requiring companies to o

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Integrated Writing
In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option.

The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company benefits.

For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rate. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.

Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests or enjoying leisure activities.

Questions:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

The readings suggest that in usa four day work week should be adopted since it will boost the profit of the companies and also will be better for the employees bu the listening part argues with the statements provided in the reading part and provide three main reasons why the 4 days work week might not be more effective than five day work week and can also me more costly for the companies. It does that by providing three reasons
Firstly, according to the person by four days work week the salary of each employee might be the eighty percent of the original and the new hired employees will also be paid eighty percent but the cost of the health insurance and the training of the employees will remain the same for each new employee either it’s a four day work week or a five day work week also to adjust those employees in the office more work space will be required, more equipments will be required and this will cost a lot to the company and in this case five days work week will be more beneficial for the company.
Secondly, Not all employees will follow the four day work week, some might work for five days, company can also allow them to work overtime to do same amount of work that they use to do in five days in this case no new opportunities will be created.
Thirdly, the person says that the job stability of the employees working for four days will be more in-stable than those who work for five days a week, if company has to reduce the staff for some reason four days workers will be the first to loose the job, also the chances of their promotion will be less than those who work for five days since company will want someone who is more consistent and nows the company better.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 48, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...dings suggest that in usa four day work week should be adopted since it will boost t...
^^^^
Line 1, column 151, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...mpanies and also will be better for the employees bu the listening part argues with the s...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 342, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...ot be more effective than five day work week and can also me more costly for the com...
^^^^
Line 3, column 177, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...ime to do same amount of work that they use to do in five days in this case no new ...
^^^
Line 4, column 243, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
... four days workers will be the first to loose the job, also the chances of their prom...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 5.04856512141 396% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1387.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.36163522013 5.08290768461 86% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.10094196063 2.5805825403 81% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.415094339623 0.540411800872 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 418.5 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.55342163355 84% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 4.0 13.0662251656 31% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 79.0 21.2450331126 372% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 136.852109958 49.2860985944 278% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 346.75 110.228320801 315% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 79.5 21.698381199 366% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 18.5 7.06452816374 262% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.46146104567 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.36091115174 0.0996497079465 362% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.033651078036 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.356551613205 0.162205337803 220% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0440991560691 0.0443174109184 100% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 38.9 13.3589403974 291% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 16.67 53.8541721854 31% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 30.6 11.0289183223 277% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 9.19 12.2367328918 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.79 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 25.5 10.7273730684 238% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 33.6 10.498013245 320% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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