4-Day Workweek
The popular 5-day workweek has long been a staple in U.S. business. With employees working 8 hours a day for a total of 40 hours a week, it has been seen as a model of efficiency. However, some companies and government agencies have begun converting to a 10-hour-a-day, 4-day workweek. This conversion offers numerous benefits to both businesses and employees and should be seriously considered.
First, a 4-day workweek will alleviate some considerable expenses for the average employee. A recent national survey found that 34% of prospective employees turned down job offers because of long commutes to work. With the high cost of gas and vehicle maintenance, eliminating one day’s driving per week will reduce expenses by quite a bit, making the idea of working far from home more appealing and giving employees the opportunity to use the money saved to cover other, more pressing costs.
Second, reducing the number of working days will lower the operating costs of most businesses; employers won’t need to keep their business open an extra day. This will result in less money spent on fixed expenses, such as lighting and air conditioning, helping to improve a company’s profitability. By eliminating one business day, companies will not only save significantly on operating expenses but also have the additional benefit of a more efficient workforce continually energized with a 3-day weekend.
Third, a 4-day workweek will improve the ability of employees to spend time with their families. Work is often cited as the major reason why parents don’t spend time with their children and one reason why some stop working. With a reduced workweek, they will spend an extra day with their children and other loved ones, helping to improve their overall quality of life and thus sending them back to work happier.
The reading and the lecture are both about converting the work schedule into a 4-day workweek rather than a 5-day schedule. While the author of the article argues that this conversion offers numerous benefits to both employees and businesses, the lecturer disputes the claims mentioned in the article. His position is that those benefits are not enough to make such conversion.
According to the reading, the 4-day workweek regimen will alleviate some considerable expensis. The article mentions that one of the expenses that will be decreased is the gas and vehicle maintenance. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that this decrease is very low to justify such dramatic change. Additionally, he points out that the 20 or 30 dollars decrease is not going to have considerable effect according to the employee.
Second, the author says that reducing the working days will lowerthe operating costs. The author notes that eleminating one day will minimize fixed expenses for companies. However, the lecturer asserts that it is not true, and the opposite is going to happen. The conversion into 4 days working is going to cost companies more than before. He goes on to say that the extra night hours will be without customers, which will mean losing 20% of the business.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that a 4-day workweek will improve the ability of employee to spend time with families and he contends that this will also improve their quality of life. In contrast the lecturer's state is that families will not be positively affected by the new work regimen. He says that the particular reason of that is that employee is going to spend more money on day care for their toddlers and they are not going to have much time with their school kids since they are going to be at school at that free extra day.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...30 dollars decrease is not going to have considerable effect according to the emp...
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Line 4, column 197, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
... also improve their quality of life. In contrast the lecturers state is that families wi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, so, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86581469649 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50917739001 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511182108626 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8472275433 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1875 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5625 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205975372864 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675599572728 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0688105523578 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127055354282 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313296180953 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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