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 reading suggests that modifying the five days work to four days will eventually be beneficial to both the employees and the company for several reasons. However, the lecturer clearly denies the argument stating that it will not be as effectual as the passage suggests.
First of all, the passage states that four days work week will result in a profitable change as the workers will be more alert and rested, causing them to be prone to fewer errors than before, alongside with enabling the company to hire more employees as the existing ones will be willing to work at 80 percent of the normal rate. Nevertheless, the lecturer counters this argument by saying that recruiting additional workers will thereby engender more costs for the company since those new recruits will need additional training which will reduce the profit margin. Most importantly, the medical allowances per employee will certainly increase as it is same for each regardless of having employees working four days or five days per week.
Moreover, the passage states that this four weekdays policy will help reduce the unemployment rate in overall because to complete the pending work, the company will recruit new faces. But the lecturer refutes this argument by saying that, the alternative case can also happen. As the company will cut short the working days, they will indeed coerce the workers to do overtime because then expectation from the employees will be skyrocketed. Consequently, number of additional jobs will reduce instead whereas those existing jobs will feel more mundane and perfunctory.
Last but not the least, the reading tries to improvise that this four day working period per week will be accepted by those workers because they will also get more refreshing time for themselves; ramifications will act as a benefactor for the individuals as well since they will have more leisure to spend quality time with family. The lecturer, notwithstanding the statement's opinion, refutes it clearly by opining that it will rather hamper their career growth since they will not be focusing on their profession. Perhaps even, the company authorities will prefer those employees working five workdays a week over those working four days. Additionally, by following as the reading says, their will be consequence of economic downtown. Therefore it will impede the proliferation and career and may even threaten employee's career into peril.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 367, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'statements'' or 'statement's'?
Suggestion: statements'; statement's
...mily. The lecturer, notwithstanding the statements opinion, refutes it clearly by opining ...
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Line 13, column 738, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ll be consequence of economic downtown. Therefore it will impede the proliferation and ca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, well, whereas, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 5.04856512141 555% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2054.0 1373.03311258 150% => OK
No of words: 391.0 270.72406181 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25319693095 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64741339657 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506393861893 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 621.9 419.366225166 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.2727015048 49.2860985944 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.714285714 110.228320801 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9285714286 21.698381199 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.71428571429 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => 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: 0.325738039702 0.272083759551 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136416691195 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108818674501 0.0662205650399 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.240181357381 0.162205337803 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0569090060644 0.0443174109184 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 63.6247240618 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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