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 employee | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

Both the lecture and article discuss the pros and cons of a four-day workweek on the companies, country, and employees. The author of the reading passage suggests that four-day work week has many benefits. The lecturer, on the other hand, believes that this work policy will not affect in the way reading passage suggest.
To begin with, the author of the passage states that reduce workweek from five days to four days will augment the profit of companies, due to decrease the personal errors that result from overwork. However, the lecturer argues that shortened workweek will increase the spendings. According to the lecturer, companies will spend more on training new employees and health benefits. Moreover, more employees mean more offices and computers.

Furthermore, the author states that four-day week policy will reduce unemployment rate in the country, by hiring more people. In contrast, the professor notes that hiring new employees is costly, therefore; companies will suggest another options rather than hiring new people. For instance, according to the lecturer, companies would ask their employees to work overtime or start expect four-day employees can do the same work done in five days.

Finally, the article mentions that reducing the number of work days to four would benefit the individual employees by increasing their free time. However, the lecturer states that working for four days instead of five can reduce their chances in promotion. So, they will affect negatively their careers in the future.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, however, moreover, so, therefore, for instance, in contrast, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 10.4613686534 10% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1292.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33884297521 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48348138775 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504132231405 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 376.2 419.366225166 90% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6914132278 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3846153846 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6153846154 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.42447126232 0.272083759551 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153862537593 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0910476406113 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270896553172 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.065848833497 0.0443174109184 149% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, however, moreover, so, therefore, for instance, in contrast, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments