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.
Company X claims that by switching to a four day work week the company will have increased profits and such plan will boost up the morale of the employees as they will have to travel less to and from the office every week. This idea seems to be propitious for the organization but it depends on several assumptions that may not be valid at all. If these assumptions proves to be false this proposal may bring negative effects for the company. It is possible that company may save some cost from keeping office shut even on Fridays but the repercussions may be opposite to what has been thought. The commuting time is what emphasized the most in the argument but there could be employees who do not care at all about the commuting time and distance.
The first assumption that is stated here is that this plan will increase profits but I am of the opinion that the policy maker did not consider the cons of such actions. Several operation takes place in the company on the daily basis like sales, calls of customers for their grievances, supply of material and all this will get severely hampered. The company may loose the customers which may buy company’s products on Friday, as a man of ordinary prudence would consider Friday as a working day and as a result of a non working the customer may exploit other options and company may loose a prospective customer. Also any product is subject to repairs and any contingency related to that product may arise in front of the customer, they might call the company’s helpline and will get no response from the other end, this could really bring bad results for the company. The supply chain of the company will also get halted as the supplier may not be able to deliver the raw materials on the Friday.
The second Assumption which bolsters this argument is that the morale of the employees will increase as they will have to commute less to arrive to the office and go back to their home. But there may exist some employees who are not affected by this commuting as they may reach office in five minutes by walk, so for these employee this alleged morale boosting step may be utter futile. Moreover there are some recreational activities that people do after the office hours to get freshen up and this may gets halted as very little time will be left for them. People often have some obligations after the office hours and this step may be disliked by them as they won’t be able to fulfill those. If the results of these steps is opposite to what that has been thought they company may have to face employees turnover. And an Employee turnover may prove very deleterious to any organization.
The Productivity plays a very important role in the success of an organization.Working ten hours a day may diminish the productivity of the human resources of the organization and the company may not achieve the desired results that are expected so far.
Company x came up with an interesting plan but implementing such a plan in a rash may prove lethal for the company. In my opinion the company should reconsider the proposal and think of various other variables that are germane to this proposal, the policy makers should sit and have a bilateral communication with the employees in order to know what can increase their morale in real terms.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 585 350
No. of Characters: 2675 1500
No. of Different Words: 253 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.918 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.573 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.454 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.789 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.149 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.895 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.515 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 399, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...mptions proves to be false this proposal may bring negative effects for the compa...
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Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun operation seems to be countable; consider using: 'Several operations'.
Suggestion: Several operations
... not consider the cons of such actions. Several operation takes place in the company on the daily...
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Line 3, column 364, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[4]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
... get severely hampered. The company may loose the customers which may buy company’s p...
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Line 3, column 585, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[4]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...y exploit other options and company may loose a prospective customer. Also any produc...
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Line 3, column 615, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...mpany may loose a prospective customer. Also any product is subject to repairs and a...
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Line 5, column 318, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this employee' or 'these employees'?
Suggestion: this employee; these employees
... office in five minutes by walk, so for these employee this alleged morale boosting step may b...
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Line 5, column 388, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...rale boosting step may be utter futile. Moreover there are some recreational activities ...
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Line 5, column 696, 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.
...as they won’t be able to fulfill those. If the results of these steps is opposite ...
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Line 6, column 79, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Working
... role in the success of an organization.Working ten hours a day may diminish the produc...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, really, second, so, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 37.0 12.9520958084 286% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 28.8173652695 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2726.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 583.0 441.139720559 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67581475129 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91379618374 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57247452191 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 204.123752495 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432246998285 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 864.0 705.55239521 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.388231653 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.473684211 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.6842105263 23.324526521 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36842105263 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.162670153272 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574950356282 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507413989246 0.0701772020484 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108541389261 0.128457276422 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331763329064 0.0628817314937 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.46 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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