Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours per day from Monday 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 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 claims to increase the profit of a company X by increasing daily work hours from 8 to 10 hours and reducing one weekday of the work, that is, Friday. While the author mentioned that this is a new policy, it is based on various assumptions, that this essay will talk about. Firstly, it is assumed that 10 hours of work will be more productive than the traditional 8 hours work. Moreover, a supposition is stated that profit will increase if commute time is reduced and making Friday a holiday from work.
One of the leaps in this argument is that daily work hours are directly proportional to profit. Author supposed that increasing 2 hours of work every day will lead to more profit, due to an increase in productivity, nevertheless, consequences are not considered for this policy. After a long 8-hours working day, does an employee have enough physical and mental health to continue for 2 more hours? While this remains an important question, proper research is needed with enough target audience, to collect the situation of mental and physical health of employees. If not so, this can lead to less productivity due to an additional 2 hours wastage and a Friday off day.
Additionally, it is supposed that commute time has a relation with employee's morale, however, it is not asserted that how much impact is there on employees' productivity, which will lead to a boost in profit. If company X is in a heavy traffic city, then it is justified to say that commute time will consequently impact employees' morale, in contrast, if commute time is already less, then it will have a minimal impact on employees, thus lesser increase in profit. In short, it is necessary to gather traffic data form the city where company X is placed. Otherwise, this policy will not have a significant effect on profit.
To conclude, the author seems to assume that increasing hours will lead to increased productivity irrespective of considering mental and physical health. Also, relation with commute time and employees' morale needs additional support with research, or else, this policy will have a negative impact on the company.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 361 350
No. of Characters: 1718 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.359 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.759 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.688 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.696 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.411 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.28 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.729 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.029 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 14 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Policy
...sequences are not considered for this policy. After a long 8-hours working day, does...
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Line 15, column 7, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...h to continue for 2 more hours? While this remains an important question, proper r...
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Line 17, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Mental
...audience, to collect the situation of mental and physical health of employees. If no...
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Line 21, column 147, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...serted that how much impact is there on employees productivity, which will lead to a boos...
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Line 25, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: On
...s, then it will have a minimal impact on employees, thus lesser increase in prof...
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Line 25, column 147, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ty where company X is placed. Otherwise, this policy will not have a significant ...
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Line 33, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Physical
...rrespective of considering mental and physical health. Also, relation with commute tim...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, thus, while, in contrast, in short
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1808.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 361.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00831024931 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77872336703 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.470914127424 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 549.0 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.73173732 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.533333333 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0666666667 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 14.0 5.15768463074 271% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281748763888 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109589770637 0.0743258471296 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0715325919057 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111008837554 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612842024717 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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