Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours per day from Monday to Thursdaybinstead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday. Although the policy is new, Company X claims that the policy would help to increase profits by shutting down offices on Friday and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author puts forth an argument that the recent switching of the company X from a 5-day workweek to 4-day workweek would prove beneficial to the company. For supporting this argument he has provided evidences like the morale of the employees would boost by the reduction in the commute to office as well as shutting down of office on friday. However, on deeper scrutiny, the argument is found to be based on various unwarranted assumptions. Author must corroborate these assumptions with credible justification in order to bolster his claim.
Firstly, the author assumes that the morale of the employees would increase with the 4-day workweek. It is quite possible that 10 hours per day would prove to be very hectic for the employees. If their commute is long say 2 hours per day on average, they would only get 12 hours for themselves at home which may curtail their time for entertainment and family. This may negatively affect their moral as they won't have the time enough to spend with their family on the daily basis. So, the author must put forth solid surveys of the employees showing that they are willing to have 4-day workweek. The survey must be representative and unbiased. This would help us negate the assumption of the employees morale getting boosted with the new working hours.
Coming to the second issue of increasing profit with the new working schedule of the company. As "Human beings cannot eat all the three meals at one time of the day", likewise, a person cannot accomplish the entire work of several distinct periods in fewer big stretches. There is a limit to which human mind can focus and efficiently work. After that limit, human being need to relax and take breaks to recharge their brain in order to make a comeback to work again. The author by saying that the profit of the firm would increase with the new work time-table makes enormous assumptions like the employees would be able to have the same productivity like that in the 5-day workweek. If this assumption does not come out to be true, the argument would be negatively affected. The profit of the company might go down instead of increasing due to the flagging productivity of the employees working for long hours.
Also, the author does not provide any significant justification for how significantly would the commute time of the employees decrease. The author assumes this would increase the morale of the employees, but what if the commute time of most of the employees turn out to be a insignificant factor. It is quite possible, for example, that the employees live close by the company ofice due to reasons like the office being in proximity to a good residensial location etc. The author must negate this possibility so that this assumption turns into a credible fact.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 277, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ployees would boost by the reduction in the commute to office as well as shutting down of o...
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Line 3, column 693, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...ld help us negate the assumption of the employees morale getting boosted with the new wor...
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...stification for how significantly would the commute time of the employees decrease. The au...
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...he morale of the employees, but what if the commute time of most of the employees turn out ...
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Line 7, column 275, 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
...of most of the employees turn out to be a insignificant factor. It is quite possi...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'likewise', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'well', 'for example', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223938223938 0.25644967241 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.140926640927 0.15541462614 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0945945945946 0.0836205057962 113% => OK
Adverbs: 0.046332046332 0.0520304965353 89% => OK
Pronouns: 0.027027027027 0.0272364105082 99% => OK
Prepositions: 0.137065637066 0.125424944231 109% => OK
Participles: 0.034749034749 0.0416121511921 84% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.65079301363 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.03861003861 0.026700313972 145% => OK
Particles: 0.00772200772201 0.001811407834 426% => OK
Determiners: 0.137065637066 0.113004496875 121% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0405405405405 0.0255425247493 159% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00772200772201 0.0127820249294 60% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2795.0 2731.13054187 102% => OK
No of words: 475.0 446.07635468 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88421052632 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.57801047555 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.322105263158 0.378187486979 85% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.233684210526 0.287650121315 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.174736842105 0.208842608468 84% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.117894736842 0.135150697306 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65079301363 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 207.018472906 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469473684211 0.469332199767 100% => OK
Word variations: 53.2593558605 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 21.5909090909 23.2022227129 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.485534669 57.7814097925 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.045454545 141.986410481 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5909090909 23.2022227129 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.590909090909 0.724660767414 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 44.9593301435 51.9672348444 87% => OK
Elegance: 1.84684684685 1.8405768891 100% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.449770301592 0.441005458295 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.152360241135 0.135418324435 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0823758191334 0.0829849096947 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.540417584783 0.58762219726 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.163319382022 0.147661913831 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.191629109279 0.193483328276 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102331445416 0.0970749176394 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.593696605487 0.42659136922 139% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0500463837606 0.0774707102158 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.350178684007 0.312017818177 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487349545015 0.0698173142475 70% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.33743842365 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 6.46551724138 170% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 14.657635468 136% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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