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.
The article discusses the advantages of changing workweek from 5-day workweek, 8 hours a day to a 10-hour-a-day workweek, 4-day work and provide three reasons of suuport. However, the professor states that these dramatic changes have not bring any significant beneficail, and the authpr’s reasons are weak, inconvincing. He refutes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading avers tht working 4-day workweek will alleviate expenses for the employees, like reduce cost of gas and vehicle maintaine. The professor refutes this point by explaining that the amount of gas are using for emplyees to travel to their business is about 30 miles, which is $20 to $15, So the annual total saving will be $180. This amount of money is not enough to justify changing in workweek.
Second, the article claims that by converting workweek from 5-day to 4-day will lower operating expenses, like fixed expenses such as ligting and air conditioning, increase company’s profitability. On the other hand, the professor explains that this point is misguiding. He says that open 5-day will make companys loss 20 percent. Even though 4-day work will make company’s open extra 2 hour per day, this openeing will be late at night where no or little people like to do bussinesses. And thus, this converting do not justify such a huge loss in doing bussines to lower fixed expenses.
Third, the article state that a 4-day workweek wil bring time for employees to spend with their families, like their children and the loved ones. However, the professor states that this change will not significantly add times for employess to be with their families. For example, young children will need a day care during the week while their parents at work. Such a matter is difficult to find at evening. And for old children, during the day off, when their parents at home, they will be school. Therefore, the 4-day workweek will not make families to spend more time together.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, thus, while, for example, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1644.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05846153846 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73937063562 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553846153846 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3402844319 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7058823529 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1176470588 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.247828004572 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816214900997 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0709175550537 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159639042045 0.162205337803 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486082179324 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => 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: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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