In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option. The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company profits. For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate. Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities.
Word Count: 225
The Author of the passage put forward different reasons claiming that willingness of employees to work four day a week would benefit to the employees as well as the organization. On the other hand, The speaker rejects all the claims and cast doubt upon them.
First, written text claims that , shortened workweek would help to increase organization's revenue, as rested and alert employees would make less costly errors and quality work would be done. In addition, company can hire more staff with the cut of from salary of four day a week employees. In contrast, the orater opposes, saying that new hiring would need more training , medical benefits, more space and computers. This will add to company's cost decreasing profits.
Second, from the author's point of view, hiring more employees leads to generation of employment opportunities. The monologue rebuts this claiming that there is no gurantee of employment, company can force existing employees to work over time and complete same amount of work in four days a week instead of regular five days.
Lastly, the passage advocates the leisure time that shortened work week employees will get, by improved quality of life, more family time, enjoying private hobbies. Conversely, the audio lesson challenge the same showing its disadvantages such as decrease job stability, loss of jobs during recession and hindrance in career excelling
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 32, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...hem. First, written text claims that , shortened workweek would help to increa...
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Line 3, column 371, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...that new hiring would need more training , medical benefits, more space and comput...
^^
Line 7, column 213, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ely, the audio lesson challenge the same showing its disadvantages such as decrea...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, if, lastly, second, so, well, in addition, in contrast, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1174.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26457399103 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65574057933 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636771300448 0.540411800872 118% => OK
syllable_count: 348.3 419.366225166 83% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3801548231 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.4 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8 7.06452816374 167% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279170402835 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105323467361 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0993867114926 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177529850833 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609705172696 0.0443174109184 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 32, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...hem. First, written text claims that , shortened workweek would help to increa...
^^
Line 3, column 371, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...that new hiring would need more training , medical benefits, more space and comput...
^^
Line 7, column 213, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ely, the audio lesson challenge the same showing its disadvantages such as decrea...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, if, lastly, second, so, well, in addition, in contrast, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1174.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26457399103 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65574057933 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636771300448 0.540411800872 118% => OK
syllable_count: 348.3 419.366225166 83% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3801548231 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.4 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8 7.06452816374 167% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279170402835 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105323467361 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0993867114926 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177529850833 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609705172696 0.0443174109184 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.