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.
1.Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
2.Offering employees the option of a four-day workweek won't affect the company profits, economic conditions or the lives of employees in the ways the reading suggests.
The first 2 sections
1.First, offering a four-day workweek will probably force companies to spend more, possibly a lot more.
2.Adding new workers means putting much more money into providing training and medical benefits.
3.Remember the costs of things like health benefits can be the same whether an employee works four days or five.
4.And having more employees also requires more office space and more computers.
5.These additional costs would quickly cut into company profits.
The first 3 segments
1.Second, with respect to overall employment, it doesn't follow that once some employees choose a four-day workweek, many more jobs will become available.
2.Hiring new workers is costly, as I argued a moment ago.
3.And companies have other options.
4.They might just choose to ask their employees to work overtime to make up the difference.
5.Worse, companies might raise expectations.
6.They might start to expect that their four-day employees can do the same amount of work they used to do in five days.
7.If this happens, then no additional jobs will be created and current jobs will become more unpleasant.
The first 4 segments
1.Finally, while a four-day workweek offers employees more free time to invest in their personal lives, it also presents some risks that could end up reducing their quality of life.
2.Working a shorter week can decrease employees'job stability and harm their chances for advancing their careers.
3.Four-day employees are likely to be the first to lose their jobs during an economic downturn.
4.They may also be passed over for promotions because companies might prefer to have five-day employees in management positions to ensure continuous coverage and consistent supervision for the entire workweek.
Both the reading and writing discuss the idea of a four-day workweek foran employee. The author argues that a four-day workweek is beneficial for an individual stating three reasons. However, the speaker contradicts the author and challenges all the reasons stated.
Firstly, the writer explains that a short workweek would increase the company's profits as the employees are more rested and hence make few errors in their work. On the contrary, the lecture negates this argument. He argues that the company would not be benefited from a four-day workweek. He adds that since the company has to spend more money on adding more employees it would cost them more as they need to provide training and health benefits. In addition, the company also has to increase the office space and buy more computers if they hire more which would result in a decrease of their profit.
Secondly, the passage talks about how the four-day workweek can help with unemployment in the country. In contrast, the lecture rebuts this statement. It put it down by explaining that since hiring is costly the company would try not to hire more people. Instead, the company would make the current employees work overtime and raise the expectations that one has to work more i. e it would expect a four-day workweek employee to do five-day work in just 4 days. As a result, this would make the employee's life unpleasant.
Finally, the author also expresses his idea that a four-day workweek would give an employee more free time for himself and it would increase his quality of life and can pursue his private interests. The lecturer in the listening passage is doubtful about this. He contends that having more free time adds some risks and reduces the quality of free time. To add to the above, the employee would also have less job stability and lose his job during economic downtime. He continues that a five-day workweek employee would be given a preference for promotion as he is available the whole week to ensure and monitor the work.
As you can see, the author and professor hold different views on the four-day workweek policy.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 394, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
... more employees it would cost them more as they need to provide training and healt...
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Line 5, column 496, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
... days. As a result, this would make the employees life unpleasant. Finally, the author...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, as to, in addition, in contrast, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1761.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 360.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89166666667 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46902883642 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497222222222 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 534.6 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3297346879 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.05 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.95 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.265204173927 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.092097072682 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0901291698843 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156884424508 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.057674719521 0.0443174109184 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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