The reading supports a new initiative to implement a four-day week instead of five with some argumentation. The lecturer raises some concerns on validity of those arguments and gives some contra-arguments which seem to be pretty convincing.
Firstly, reading states that some of employees are willing themselves to work a four-days week for lesser compensation gaining for such shorter week about 80% of their current salary. Reading states that following of this approach will benefit the companies with the costs savings on the salary of those employees and will give to people the flexibility which they demand.
Lecturer debates the fact that companies would be able to save in such case, furthermore he proves that it potentially will lead to the costs increase taking into account the following:
- companies still will have to carry full social costs on employees who will work less number of days;
- the recruitment of new workers tied up with costs for training and for working seats arrangements as more work seats means more space and higher rentals, more personal computers and expansion of all related infrastructure.
Secondly, the reading states that more jobs will become available because a lot of employees will vacate one working day a week which may be taken by someone else. But lecturer highlighted two other possibilities of development in such situation, which are the following:
- instead of recruiting new workers, to prevent themselves from extra costs with which new recruitments are followed, company can ask remaining employees to work extra hours. In such case the improvement in a life quality of one type of employees will be achieved worsening the quality for another type, and that potentially may lead to loose of social stability in the society.
- companies may raise expectations from those who selected four-days weeks and make them work extra in these four days. In such case the potential improvement in quality of job mentioned in the reading would be not possible to achieve, and risks of taking a mistakes during much longer working day gets even hire than it is in original case.
And further more, people who select four days week will carry the risk to loose job at first place in case of any organizational changes, and they also receive much less opportunities for promotion.
Lecturer concluded that taking into account all these possible options, how companies may behave in such situation to protect themselves from increase of the costs, this new initiative may end up reducing quality of life, not increasing.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 30, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'some of', you should use 'the' ('some of the employees') or simply say ''some employees''.
Suggestion: some of the employees; some employees
...incing. Firstly, reading states that some of employees are willing themselves to work a four-d...
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Line 9, column 338, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
... type, and that potentially may lead to loose of social stability in the society. - ...
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Line 10, column 256, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a mistake' or simply 'mistakes'?
Suggestion: a mistake; mistakes
...ossible to achieve, and risks of taking a mistakes during much longer working day gets eve...
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Line 11, column 75, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...t four days week will carry the risk to loose job at first place in case of any organ...
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Line 11, column 166, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun opportunities is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...nal changes, and they also receive much less opportunities for promotion. Lecture...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, still
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 30.3222958057 208% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2161.0 1373.03311258 157% => OK
No of words: 417.0 270.72406181 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18225419664 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80208935279 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 145.348785872 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505995203837 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 657.9 419.366225166 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 34.0 21.2450331126 160% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 103.167710011 49.2860985944 209% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 180.083333333 110.228320801 163% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.75 21.698381199 160% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 10.0 4.09492273731 244% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.376364226238 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143805288787 0.0996497079465 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0704762186608 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155327196504 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0658493486524 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 13.3589403974 152% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.97 53.8541721854 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.0289183223 151% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.36 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 10.498013245 149% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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