Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours per
day fromMonday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday. Although the
policy is new, Company X claims that the policy will help to increase profits by shutting down
offices on Fridays and toboost 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 Company X wants to change work hour-and-day policy to increase profits and wants to boost morale of employees by giving them three days off in a week. The company has made certain assumptions that need to be considered for this policy to work effectively.
The first change which company has made is changing 4-day work week and mandating that each employee should work 10 hours per day.The assumption here is that each employee would agree on this new working hours. Employees of a company belong to different age groups. Some of the employees are married, some can be single, some employee can be in their early old age. Everyone wants to have a work-life balance; working 10 hours a day might be difficult for some people because they have to look after their families or might have responsibilities, might have a schedule to follow during the day. If this is not the case then all employees would agree with this resolution or else people will start quitting their job which will be a failure of this policy.
The second claim was that by shutting down offices on Friday, Company X will earn more profits. Company X assumes that by saving operational costs of company, can increase the profit. A company's profit depends on the value of the company's shares in financial market or how well the consumers use products and services provided by the company. Reducing company's operational cost might not be a contributing factor in increasing profits of a company. Another assumption here
is on a holiday all of the energy consumed can be reduced but it is possible that some resources and energy will be required to keep certain machines up even on a non-working day. If company X has different conditions then this policy might be helpful in improving profits.
The last thing which company assumes is that by reducing commuting time each week will boost employee morale. It is possible that working continuously for 10 long hours for four days a week is hectic and tiresome for employees. They might not be able to work efficiently after 7-8 hours. Instead boosting up of morale, it will become burdensome for them. So even reducing commuting time will not help, sometimes it is bonus or appraisal which makes employees
happy and energetic.
Hence, Company X should consider the implications of all assumptions before implementing this policy because employees are the resources of any company and are crucial to help them to earn profit and a company is known by its work not by its policies. So,the company should consider both employees' view and its profit to get the true benefit of the policy.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2126 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.746 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.594 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.781 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...r this policy to work effectively. The first change which company has made is ...
^^^
Line 5, column 131, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...h employee should work 10 hours per day.The assumption here is that each employee w...
^^^
Line 5, column 131, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...h employee should work 10 hours per day.The assumption here is that each employee w...
^^^
Line 5, column 267, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...company belong to different age groups. Some of the employees are married, some can be sing...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Is
...of a company. Another assumption here is on a holiday all of the energy consumed...
^^
Line 11, column 17, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...other assumption here is on a holiday all of the energy consumed can be reduced but it i...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 181, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... machines up even on a non-working day. If company X has different conditions then...
^^
Line 15, column 289, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
...le to work efficiently after 7-8 hours. Instead boosting up of morale, it will become b...
^^^^^^^
Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Happy
...us or appraisal which makes employees happy and energetic. Hence, Company X sh...
^^^^^
Line 21, column 255, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...nown by its work not by its policies. So,the company should consider both employees ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, look, second, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2184.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 446.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89686098655 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63855907789 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455156950673 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 666.9 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4243628741 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.2 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.55 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333480719366 0.218282227539 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109898918712 0.0743258471296 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665606144445 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158285369283 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0804126510503 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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