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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 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 government assumed that supporting the four-day week can be benefit to not only the employee but also the companies and economy as a whole.
In the article, the author suggested that the shorter work week can bring companies more efficient workers in that they have enough rest and able to stay alert while working. And at the same time, this can make more profit for those companies and also cut down the cost on employment. However, in the lecture, it was argued that this way can actually cost those companies more after all. Although the companies can cut down on the salary and only pay 80% of the original price, hiring more employees cost the companies more. Because they need to train more employees, offer health benefit to more people, provide larger office space and more computers. All the above mentioned would cut the profit eventually.
The article also mentioned that the shorter work week can decrease the unemployment rate in that the companies would release more job opportunities for more employees. Nonetheless, it was opposed by the lecture that it is likely for the unemployment rate to rise rather than go down. Because the companies can simply make the employees to work over time to make up the difference so they don't need to seek for other new workers.
Lastly, the article stated that the shorter week can make employees have a higher quality life. However, in the lecture, it was said that the quality of life would actually become worse if the workers choose to work only 4 days in a week. Since it would increase the steability of their career and they would likely be passed if a chance of promotion comes.
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- 阅读材料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 80
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 389, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... time to make up the difference so they dont need to seek for other new workers. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, lastly, nonetheless, so, while, after all
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: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1373.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8006993007 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41884513263 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
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
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.2022766492 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.615384615 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76923076923 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => 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: 0.199105200153 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0789421038803 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651118509507 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14990109345 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0440573884826 0.0443174109184 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.