Summarise the points made in the lecture. Be sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage-four-day workweek.
The reading passage and the lecture are both about a four-day workweek. The lecturer completely refutes the arguments in the article. He argues that these explanations are faulty.
Firstly, the lecture states that a shortened workweek will not increase company profits. This is because company will spend much more money since hiring, health benefits, more computers and space to accommodate new employees will elevate company costs. This directly opposes the reading passage that states that the company profits will increase with the four-day workweek.
Secondly, the lecturer explains that the unemployment rate will not be reduced. Hiring a new employee for every four worker in a reduced workweek is costly for the company. Furthermore, the company could ask the employees to do the same work in a diminished time. Therefore, no additional job vacancy will be created and the job will be more unpleasant. This idea disagrees with the article that states that the unemployment rates will decline with the shortened workweek.
Finally, the lecturer believes that the free time generated by the reduced work hours present a lot of risks for the quality of life of the workers such as reduction in job stability. Moreover, it can harm the chances in enhance their careers and they can lose the opportunity of promotions because the company may prefer five-hour workweek workers for management positions. The reading passage, on the other hand, states that the free time will ameliorate the quality of life of employees since they will spend more time with their families.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, therefore, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1333.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26877470356 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61442657122 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.517786561265 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 413.1 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.268811627 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2142857143 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0714285714 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118785035116 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534113058672 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.066783558593 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0859191448677 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0310652145825 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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