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
New policy of company X to switch to 4 day workweek instead of 5 day workweek and mandating the employees to work for 10 hours per day to increase profits and boosting employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week seems plausible at is first look, but in actual lacks with proper reasoning and facts which makes this a faulty argument. Author needs to answer few questions so as to make the argument a cogent argument.
Firstly, the author states that shutting down offices on Fridays will increase the profits of the company but he has not provided the reasons for it. As we see in 5 day workweek employees will be working for 8 hours per day which means 40 hours per week and in 4 days workweek also they will be working for 40 hours per day as the company has made it mandatory to work for 10 hours per day. So the work time or operating time of the company will be the same and due to which the electricity and resources utilized for the same will remain unchanged. So even though at first it seemed plausible but author need to provide exact reasons of doing so. Also the efficacy the employee will have while working 8 hours per day will not be the same while working for 10 hours. Due to long work time the employee will lose its enthusiasm for work and become languish. So it might happen that instead of the making profit the company might face loses due to this new policy.
Secondly, he also states that this will boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week. But commuting time is only one aspect which is considered by the author. There are many other things that need to consider by the author. Author should also think of the mental and physical keenness of the employee because long working hours will lead to decrease in the enthusiasm of the employee regarding his work and might also lead to mental depression due to long work hours. So as per me author should also consider various other aspects before making claims.
Also I would like to ask the author on what basis is he or she making the claims. Because he has not mentioned about any survey done by him that will show that the new policy has increased the morale of the employees and the profits of the company have increased after implementation of these new policies. For author should do a proper survey to check whether the new policy is really boosting the morale of the employee and instead of saying that there will be increase in the profits he or she should check the balance sheet so that he will come to know that the company is really making the profits due to change in the policy or not.
So at last I would conclude by saying that author's statement is faulty, and he needs to verify facts before recommending any steps. Author's recommendation can decrease in the profits and decrease in the mental keenness of the employees. So author should check his statements and facts before proceeding.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 534 350
No. of Characters: 2378 1500
No. of Different Words: 199 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.807 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.453 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.292 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.7 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.307 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.54 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.159 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 44, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'workweek' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'workweeks'.
Suggestion: workweeks
... policy of company X to switch to 4 day workweek instead of 5 day workweek and mandating...
^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 70, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'workweek' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'workweeks'.
Suggestion: workweeks
...itch to 4 day workweek instead of 5 day workweek and mandating the employees to work for...
^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 398, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...t. Author needs to answer few questions so as to make the argument a cogent argument. ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... make the argument a cogent argument. Firstly, the author states that shutting...
^^^
Line 3, column 649, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...d to provide exact reasons of doing so. Also the efficacy the employee will have whi...
^^^^
Line 5, column 500, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[3]
Message: “So as” 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.
...ntal depression due to long work hours. So as per me author should also consider vari...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... other aspects before making claims. Also I would like to ask the author on what ...
^^^^
Line 7, column 64, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'makes'.
Suggestion: makes
...k the author on what basis is he or she making the claims. Because he has not mentione...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, really, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, while, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.9520958084 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 24.0 11.1786427146 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => 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: 2421.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 534.0 441.139720559 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.53370786517 5.12650576532 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80712388197 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32615930827 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.37265917603 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 723.6 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.3780416735 57.8364921388 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.05 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347606094686 0.218282227539 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.099638082782 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129735279249 0.0701772020484 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195427231017 0.128457276422 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.141395529103 0.0628817314937 225% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.29 12.5979740519 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.14 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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