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 inorder 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 morestaff 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.
Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss whether the company would offer a policy to work 4 days work week on the demand of many employees who are willing to accept less pay. The former suggests that this 4days work week would be beneficial for both the economy, employer and the employees itself for three reasons, but the lecture contradict each of these points.
First of all, the authors contends that 4 days work in a week will give the employees enough time to rest, become more focused and avoid costly errors on their work which will lead to more profit for the company. In contrast, the lecturer contradicts that this policy will actually increase the expenditure of a company. He also states that, 4 days work week requires more employees to cover for the 5 days task which will lead to hire more employees, more space and training and medical benefit for those employees will increase the expenditure will lead to less profit.
Second of all, the passage states that this policy will create more job opportunities which will decrease the unemployment rate of that economy. However, the listening rebuts that this 4 days work week policy might not create any new job opportunity perhaps employer may ask their employee to work overtime. He also mention, This policy might increase the employers expectation that 4 days work week employees will do work with same efficiency what they used to do in 5 days which will create an unpleasant situation within managers and staffs.
Finally, the text claims that individuals will get enough free time to spend with their family. On the other hand, the professor avers that this 4 days work week policy might decrease the job stability of that individuals. He also states this policy is not good for career growth as employee might consider 5days worker instead of 4 days worker in their most of the managerial position.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 317, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'mentions'.
Suggestion: mentions
...heir employee to work overtime. He also mention, This policy might increase the employe...
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Line 5, column 357, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employers'' or 'employer's'?
Suggestion: employers'; employer's
...mention, This policy might increase the employers expectation that 4 days work week emplo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, may, second, so, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 5.04856512141 357% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1569.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87267080745 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40961169913 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475155279503 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 47.9986225698 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.636363636 110.228320801 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.2727272727 21.698381199 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.72727272727 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.469171357993 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.203938429703 0.0996497079465 205% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115266576792 0.0662205650399 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.314127691126 0.162205337803 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0513810459025 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.96 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.2 11.0289183223 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.56 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.7273730684 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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