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 and the lecture are both about United state employees want to work a four-day week instead of five days. The author of the reading feels that offering this option, company profit will be increase. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. The lecturer thinks that the option of four-day work week will cut down the company profit.
First of all, the author argues that the shortened workweek, employees would feel more rested and alert. The article is mentioned that they would make few errors in their work. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He claims companies might start to expect that their four days employees can do same amount of work they used to do in five days. Furthermore, he says sometimes if this happen jobs will become more unpleasant.
Secondly, the author suggests that companies can hire more staff to ensure that the same amount of rate. The article notes that if will reduce the unemployed rate in country. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that adding new workers means putting much more money into providing training and medical benefits. He elaborates on this by mentioning that more employees have to provide facilities such as more office space, more computers.
Finally, the author states that employees get free time could improve the quality of their lives. Moreover, the article says that employees can spend their leisure time with their families. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is that working a shorter week can decrease employee’s job stability and harm their chances for advancing their careers. He notes that four day working employees couldn’t get promotions because companies might prefer to have five day employees in management positions to ensure continuous coverage and consistent supervision for the entire workweek.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...allenges the claims made by the author. The lecturer thinks that the option of four...
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Line 5, column 366, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'sometimes' is usually put before the verb 'says'.
Suggestion: sometimes says
...sed to do in five days. Furthermore, he says sometimes if this happen jobs will become more un...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r lives. Moreover, the article says that employees can spend their leisure time w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, such as, first of all
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: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => 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: 1552.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27891156463 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.586163824 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551020408163 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => 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: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.0089497273 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.2222222222 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3333333333 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.3215166807 0.272083759551 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0983306814641 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108791613152 0.0662205650399 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207149458957 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108044133533 0.0443174109184 244% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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