n the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option
The passage expresses its approval of the policy of 4 days working a week will benefit the employees. However, the lecture cast doubts on this suggestion, for it will be of no advantage to the company and individuals themselves.
First of all, the reading states that one more day off from work will increase the company profits. As workers are well rested and comfortable, the efficiency will be risen. On the other hand, the lecturer is of the opinion that the new policy will add more to the company's spending. They have to pay for the training scheme and medical benefit of new employees, not to mention the extra office space and the computers.
Secondly, reducing unemployment rates is an advantage of the four-day workweek policy. Work will be shifted, creating more jobs for other people. Yet, the employer have to cut down on its profits to take on new employees, according to the listening part. Furthermore, there might be false expectations towards the employees. The executive will assume that workers are to finish the same amount of work in four days at work, which results in overworking and pressure on employees.
Thirdly, individuals are said to be beneficial from this new scheme. Since they are offered more free time, they could spend time with their family. However, they are also faced with the risk of losing their jobs.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Suggestion: .
...d with the risk of losing their jobs. .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1125.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91266375546 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60574108047 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.589519650655 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 343.8 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.0496098412 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.3571428571 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3571428571 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.14285714286 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237297925203 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804241321179 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733764617259 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15037779742 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0675269096599 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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