Offering employees the option of a four-day workweek won't affect the company profits, economic conditions or the lives of employees in the ways the reading suggests.
The article presents three arguments why companies should offer employees the option of a four-day work week, all of which are contested in the lecture.
For starters, contrary to what the article suggests, the lecturer maintains that the change would result in a cut in company profits, because of increased expenditure. The change would require the company to hire more staff. Even though the salary employees working 4 days is only 80% of those working 5 days, the expense on medical benefits and training would be the same per person. Also, more employees entail more spending on office space and computers.
Second, the lecturer does not believe that the change would increase employment rate, because it is likely that the companies would adopt other options rather than hire more staff to compensate for the reduced workdays. Companies may expect the 4-day employees to complete just as much work as the 5-day employees. They may require them to work overtime. As a result, no additional jobs will be created, while the current jobs are becoming more unpleasant.
Last, according to the lecturer, the change might lower, rather than improve, the employees' life quality. Their jobs will be less stable, because during economic downturn, hey might be laid off first. Also, they may lose opportunity for career advancement, because the companies would prefer managers who can be there the entire work week.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 83, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...e might lower, rather than improve, the employees life quality. Their jobs will be less s...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, second, so, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1190.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17391304348 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47999939021 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613043478261 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 355.5 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 1.25165562914 559% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.679528536 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1666666667 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1666666667 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190822572157 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735298397981 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685959835597 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136186137414 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0608736293535 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => 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: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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