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.
Question: Summarise the points made in the lecture,being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage
The article states that offering 4-day workweek would be an excellent choice for the employees, employers and the whole country and provides three reasons of support. However the professor explains that it would not necessarily be a good option and it could even harm the economy. he refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that having the option of working 4 days a week would eventually leads to an increase in company's profits as well as the economy. The professor refutes this point by saying that this policy will effect the economy but not as it has been said in the article. It actually is a more costly choice.He states that having new staff means more training classes besides more money on the insurance, so companies should spend a lot more than before.
Second, the article posits that this would reduce the unemployment rate. However the professor says that companies may not seem to choose the hiring strategy as it would be costly and instead they ask their employees to work overtime. According to the professor working 4-day a week makes this unreal expectation for the managers that a 4-day employee can do what they do in 5 days making unpleasant job conditions for staff.
Third, The author believes that four-day employees could improve their individual lives with spending the extra time with their family. The professor opposes this by explaining that having more free time increases the risk of not having a stable job. These employees are more likely to loose their jobs during economic crises furthermore 5-day working employees would have a better chance to get promotions rather than 4-day employees as the managers prefer to have staffs willing to work full-time for the company.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, may, second, so, third, well, as well as
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: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => 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: 1452.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00689655172 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44360895654 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568965517241 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7417158768 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.0 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1666666667 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296521525494 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0998395334819 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100488880631 0.0662205650399 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1760194276 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0793118532848 0.0443174109184 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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