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.
The reading and the lecture are both about the workweek days a week of a company. The passage states that a mandatory policy required for the employees to choose their workweek. However, the lecture counters this statement.
Firstly, the passage indicates that shortened workweek would increase company profits and fewer errors happen. While the professor points out that offering fewer days workweek cuts into company's profit. In other words, the company has to cost for medical services and training issues for the employees.
In addition, the passage suggests that hiring more staff would not result in additional payroll costs and would increase company profits. Nevertheless, the professor mentions that hiring new staff is costly for the company and the company's expectations might be increased. In other words, he states that by hiring new staff the company has to provide more computers and more space.
Last but not least, the passage said that the option of fewer workweek would be better for employees. Also, the professor argues that by 4 days workweek employees may lose their promotion of being a manager. consequently, they could spend more time with their families.
To sum up, the professor's view by making less the workweek of employees, it would not be affected the company profits because some employees could afford lower salaries and they prefer to spend more time with families.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 111, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ompany profits and fewer errors happen. While the professor points out that offering ...
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Line 2, column 162, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'days'' or 'day's'?
Suggestion: days'; day's
...rofessor points out that offering fewer days workweek cuts into companys profit. In ...
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Line 4, column 209, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Consequently
...ose their promotion of being a manager. consequently, they could spend more time with their ...
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Line 5, column 155, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to low', 'to lower'
Suggestion: to low; to lower
...its because some employees could afford lower salaries and they prefer to spend more ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, however, may, nevertheless, so, while, as to, in addition, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1182.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 226.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23008849558 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49086356197 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 145.348785872 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526548672566 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 346.5 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.2847850351 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9230769231 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3846153846 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.61538461538 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.189477523692 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0783763594531 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0744244265451 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119059990388 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670939020633 0.0443174109184 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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