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.
Company X has switched to a new policy in which employees need to work only for 4 days a week from Monday to Thursday but for 10 hours each day instead of 8. The company claims this policy would be helpful in many ways but there are many underlying assumptions that need to be considered.
Firstly, the company has assumed that all their employees would agree and be on board with this change. Working for 2 additional hours than regular could lead to fatigue and the employees could also get tired which might affect their performance at the workplace. Spending too much time working could have a negative impact on the health of the employees. Also, the company has assumed that giving an extra day off would boost the morale of the employees. They might not be boosted by this switch made and instead would prefer the old routine
Moreover, the company has assumed that shutting down the office on Friday would increase profits. The expected increase in profits may not be much. Only if there is a considerable increase in profits would the company benefit from this change made. Another reason for this change was to reduce the commuting time to the office. There is an assumption made here that the employees stay far away from the office and spend more time commuting. If they are actually close by, they would not mind commuting for an extra day.
So, these are the possible assumptions that arise from the changes the company has made and they need to consider these in order to evaluate whether the decision of switching to a 4-day workweek is a good move or not.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 279 350
No. of Characters: 1273 1500
No. of Different Words: 144 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.087 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.563 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.293 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 82 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 62 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 35 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.86 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.577 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1305.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 279.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.67741935484 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33811566359 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52688172043 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 395.1 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9866201277 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.384615385 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4615384615 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311184429426 0.218282227539 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107092807212 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119639645729 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208757080705 0.128457276422 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.125373109988 0.0628817314937 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.3550499002 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.5979740519 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 98.500998004 50% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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