The popular 5-day workweek has long been a staple in U.S. business. With employees working 8 hours a day for a total of 40 hours a week, it has been seen as a model of efficiency. However, some companies and government agencies have begun converting to a 10-hour-a-day, 4-day workweek. This conversion offers numerous benefits to both businesses and employees and should be seriously considered.
First, a 4-day workweek will alleviate some considerable expenses for the average employee. A recent national survey found that 34% of prospective employees turned down job offers because of long commutes to work. With the high cost of gas and vehicle maintenance, eliminating one day’s driving per week will reduce expenses by quite a bit, making the idea of working far from home more appealing and giving employees the opportunity to use the money saved to cover other, more pressing costs.
Second, reducing the number of working days will lower the operating costs of most businesses; employers won’t need to keep their business open an extra day. This will result in less money spent on fixed expenses, such as lighting and air conditioning, helping to improve a company’s profitability. By eliminating one business day, companies will not only save significantly on operating expenses but also have the additional benefit of a more efficient workforce continually energized with a 3-day weekend.
Third, a 4-day workweek will improve the ability of employees to spend time with their families. Work is often cited as the major reason why parents don’t spend time with their children and one reason why some stop working. With a reduced workweek, they will spend an extra day with their children and other loved ones, helping to improve their overall quality of life and thus sending them back to work happier.
Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to type your response.
The article states that 5-day workweek is beneficial for both workers and companies and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that its benefit is not enough and its reasons are weak and inconvenient and refutes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading claims that the 4-day workout will reduce some considerable expenses for employees, something like costs of gas and vehicle maintenance which cost a lot per week. The professor refutes this point by saying that it will not lessen the expenses a lot. He states that it will cost near 15 to 20 dollar per day which will become 850 dollars per year and it is not a lot to make such a big change.
Second, the article posits that it will lower the operating costs of most businesses because employees will not need to keep the business open more extra day and it will reduce fixed expenses which are used by lightening or air conditioning etc. However, the professor contends that this is a misguided. According to the professor, if the businesses cut to 4, it will be more efficient, because working two more hours per day will occur late in the evening and it will not justify making this change.
Third, the reading says that lessen one day work will cause that employees spend more time with their families. The professor opposes this point by explaining that it will not add to employees time. We also learn that the most difficult thing is to find a place where they keep children late in the evening. So the employees do not have enough time to spend with their children during the week.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 311, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'dollar' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'dollars'.
Suggestion: dollars
... states that it will cost near 15 to 20 dollar per day which will become 850 dollars p...
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Line 3, column 292, Rule ID: DT_JJ_NO_NOUN[1]
Message: Probably a noun is missing in this part of the sentence.
...er, the professor contends that this is a misguided. According to the professor, if the bus...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'third']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.237623762376 0.261695866417 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.168316831683 0.158904122519 106% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0561056105611 0.0723426182421 78% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0528052805281 0.0435111971325 121% => OK
Pronouns: 0.049504950495 0.0277247811725 179% => OK
Prepositions: 0.112211221122 0.128828473217 87% => OK
Participles: 0.029702970297 0.0370669169778 80% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.45023181356 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.026402640264 0.0208969081088 126% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.108910891089 0.128158765124 85% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.039603960396 0.0158828679856 249% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.013201320132 0.0114777025283 115% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1588.0 1645.83664459 96% => OK
No of words: 278.0 271.125827815 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71223021583 6.08160592843 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.04852973271 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.294964028777 0.374372842146 79% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.23381294964 0.287516216867 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.154676258993 0.187439937562 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.10071942446 0.113142543107 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45023181356 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521582733813 0.539623497131 97% => OK
Word variations: 51.4193292104 53.8517498576 95% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0529801325 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.1666666667 21.7502111507 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1431656329 49.3711431718 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.333333333 132.220823453 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1666666667 21.7502111507 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.583333333333 0.878197800319 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 46.5479616307 50.5018328374 92% => OK
Elegance: 1.40243902439 1.90840788429 73% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238016646208 0.549887131256 43% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.14786269131 0.142949733639 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0591417895065 0.0787303798458 75% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.648256566669 0.631733273073 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.136497053332 0.139662658121 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114577201596 0.266732575781 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464826227877 0.103435571967 45% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.401402335745 0.414875509568 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.110364359118 0.0530846634433 208% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167461498223 0.40443939384 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.017597640558 0.0528353158467 33% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.26048565121 141% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 3.49668874172 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 3.1766004415 189% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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