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 and the lecture are both about the total period of time working in the office. The author of the reading states that working of 4-days in instead of 5-days @ 8-hours will enhances the company's profits. However, the lecturer argues that, it will lowers the company's overall performance and regressed the company and refutes each of the authors reasons.
First, the reading supports that reducing of working hours would make the extra time for rest for the employees, and it creates them alert, and finally there will be the minimization of errors in their performances. The lecturer refutes by saying that it would required an additional amount of employees--who requires annex, extra computer and metallics in office. He also states that additional employee required additional training, and which finally decreases the company's profit.
Second, the article posits that the crucial benifit of this techniques would reduces the unemployment rates, and work load will be shift within the employees. In this article it is suggested that each four of the employee can give place to one new employee for their four-fifth of the work. However, the lecturer says that it might seems an unpleasant techniques, and it would better to make a over-time for the workers who were in work from previous instant.
Third, the reading says that the employee on the other hand would have been improves the quality of life of their workers--by having the free time with their family, relatives and refreshment. The lecturer opposes this point by explaining that it would be a risky decision and reduces the quality of life of the employee. He also notes that it would reduces their ability, decreases their advancement in their career and promotion and loose job by economic downturns.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 54, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...nd the lecture are both about the total period of time working in the office. The author of th...
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Line 1, column 184, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'enhance'
Suggestion: enhance
...ays in instead of 5-days @ 8-hours will enhances the companys profits. However, the lect...
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Line 1, column 258, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'lower'
Suggestion: lower
...ever, the lecturer argues that, it will lowers the companys overall performance and re...
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Line 3, column 262, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'require'
Suggestion: require
...ecturer refutes by saying that it would required an additional amount of employees--who ...
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Line 5, column 56, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...icle posits that the crucial benifit of this techniques would reduces the unemployme...
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Line 5, column 78, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...rucial benifit of this techniques would reduces the unemployment rates, and work load w...
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Line 5, column 353, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'technique'?
Suggestion: technique
... says that it might seems an unpleasant techniques, and it would better to make a over-tim...
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Line 5, column 393, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...techniques, and it would better to make a over-time for the workers who were in w...
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Line 7, column 351, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...e employee. He also notes that it would reduces their ability, decreases their advancem...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, so, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13058419244 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59479682029 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512027491409 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 445.5 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 32.3419232576 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.416666667 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.25 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.91666666667 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.249111761537 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0977048345743 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753174579361 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155621687679 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.060610667813 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => 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: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => 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: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.