Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
In 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 shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company profits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.
Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities.
The lecturer does not agree with the suggestion provided by the passage. He says that, changing to four days a week schedule will not prove beneficial and thus might be overshadowed by certain disadvantages.
First, the passage states that shortened workweek will not increase the company spending on employees. But the lecturer states that it is not true. he states that hiring a new employee would also result in other costs such as health benefits which would be same for all employees. The lecturer also states that extra office space and training would incur more costs to company.
Second , the passage states that with four-day workweek the employment rate would increase but the lecturer says that it may not happen. He states that companies in turn might ask the current employees to work overtime, and the company's expectation might increase. The employees would be expected to complete a five-day work in four days.
Last, the passage indicates that reduced workweek would be better for employees on personal level as they'll get more leisure time and could thus increase quality of their lives. But the lecturer says this could actually result in decreased job stability for the employees. He says that the company, for promotion, would prefer employees with five-day workweek . The lecturer also states that, during economic breakdowns, four-day workweek employees posses greater risk of getting fired.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, may, second, so, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 227.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25110132159 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88156143495 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52471998806 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.537444933921 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 345.6 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7468823894 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.6923076923 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4615384615 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46153846154 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146447982101 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634168961447 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059610395816 0.0662205650399 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100645095257 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0420546859925 0.0443174109184 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.87 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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