Both the reading and the listening discuss the work hours of employees each day in the United States. The author describes that there are three main reasons to support the idea that four-day workweek will benefit the company. However, the lecturer casts doubt on this claim and brings up three reasons and elucidates some evidence to refute what is mentioned in the reading passage.
First of all, the writer states that shortening the workweek provides more benefits for the company, due to the fact that the employees make fewer costly errors. Nevertheless, the professor points out that four-day workweek force companies to spend more. The new workers put much medical and training costs for the company. Furthermore, whether employees work four days or five days, health benefits are the same. Additionally, more human force means needing more off space and computers, which add cost to the company and cut into company's profits.
Second, according to the reading, four-day workweek would decrease the unemployment rates. While the lecturer brings up the idea that reducing the work days per a week, does not make any job available. As a matter of fact, hiring new employees is costly, therefore the companies can hold another option in this case, and may ask the workers to work overtime and even raise its expectations and request the employees to do the same stuffs in 4 days rather in 5 days. Therefore, four-day workweek not only add no new jobs, but also make the current jobs more unpleasant.
Third, the author expresses that four-day workweek provides a situation for the employees to spend more time with their families, which improves their lives quality. However, the speaker posits that four-day workweek increases the risk and reduces the quality of life, owing to the fact that employees might lose their jobs during the economic downturn. Besides, four-day workers may passed over for promotion, since managers must present all five days a week to supervise and coverage, the workers cannot expect to have manager positions in the company.
Therefore, the points mentioned in the reading do not make sense.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, while, as a matter of fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1782.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10601719198 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47774637523 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 145.348785872 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561604584527 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1700569652 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.375 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8125 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.875 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.434854378153 0.272083759551 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141584803795 0.0996497079465 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793564782474 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210651932585 0.162205337803 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113096247564 0.0443174109184 255% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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