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This set of the material in both reading and lecture is about reduction in working days for employees. The reading mentions that shortening working days from five days to four days would be effective for both company and reading and provides three reasons of support. On the other hand, the speaker states that this plan is not beneficial and refutes all the author's explanations.

The first reason provided by reading is that applying this plan into practical way not only benefit employers, which leads to increase in company's profit but also has more advantages for employees. The speaker opposes this by saying that if a company harness this plan, it would result in spending more money on training new workers, purchasing new computers, providing new employees with new room for working, and paying for their medical insurance. As you can see company cannot earn more profit.

Second, the author claims that since these days, there is severe reduction in employment rent, this plan enables unemployment to gain job. The author refutes this claim by explaining that an employer may tend to ask his four-day worker to do the same five-day tasks in order to reduce the cost of hiring new workers. In fact, using this strategy raising the employer's expectation form his employee. This means placing more pressure on the previous workers without employing new workers for fifth days.

Finally, the author emphasizes that this plan would be advantageous for employees, which enables them to allocate more times for their personal enjoyment. However, the speaker this plan might cause economical risk for employees. because shortening days of working times might lead to job instability. In this case, people due to thinking about losing their jobs, they might face many stress and anxiety.