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.
The article states that the companies in the USA offer four-day workweek and pay 80 percent of the normal pay. The author provides reasons to support this claim. however, listener explains that the four-day workweek option has many flaws which affect the company's growth and refutes each of the author's reasons.
first of all, the reading says that four days working policy will help to increase the company's profit. because the employees would get rest and shorten week would feel more to recharge themselves. Consequently, the employees would make less human mistakes in their work, that will help to increase the efficiency, quality of work and lead to success. In addition to this, he says that the four-day work week would affect the positive change as the same amount of work done by 80 percent of normal salary. In other words, the four-day employees would complete the same amount of work done by the 5-day employee but the four-day employees would complete the work in 80 percent of normal pay. On the other hand, the listener says that four day work week won't increase the company's profit. he mentions such policy will invite other problems like hiring and training new employees, their health benefits. The more employee requires offices to work. thus, the company may get into loss due to the shortened workweek.
Secondly, the author explains that the unemployment rate would reduce if companies choose to apply this policy. however, the listener opposes this point by explaining that if four-day employees finish their work, then there won't be much work and companies won't feel to hire new employees as there is no workload. thus, this policy is ineffective to lower the unemployment rate.
Thirdly, the author claims that the four days workweek is better for the people who can afford the less pay than the normal pay, the extra time they can spend to pursue their hobbies as well as to enjoy leisure activities. In addition to this, he says, the employees can spend the quality of time with their families too. On contrary, the listener says that although the four-day employees may take a rest in free time, they are the first target in the financial crisis. Also, in some cases, the companies may not offer promotion because they might don't have an advancing career. Sometimes the four-day workweek employees will always remain in consistent supervision. Hence, the four-day workweek would not offer more facilities and opportunities to employees to encourage their work.
In conclusion, the listener effectively cast doubt on claims and theories presented in the reading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, as to, in addition, in conclusion, as well as, first of all, in other words, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 5.04856512141 376% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2189.0 1373.03311258 159% => OK
No of words: 430.0 270.72406181 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09069767442 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.04702891845 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44039934137 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467441860465 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 625.5 419.366225166 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 17.0 8.23620309051 206% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4149145415 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5454545455 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0909090909 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.433218931466 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138365058964 0.0996497079465 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0961443939513 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212679128043 0.162205337803 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126808427735 0.0443174109184 286% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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