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 benefits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rate. 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 talks about the effect that a 4 day work week with only 80 percent payroll would have both to the individual companies and to the economy as a whole. He says that such practice would have an effect contrary to what has been stated in the passage.
First, such a policy would force companies to spend more. Recruiting new workers to make up the difference involves spending money on training them and providing medical benefits. Moreover, the health benefits would remain the same both for a 5 day worker and a 4 day worker. And to accommodate more employees, the company has to spend more money acquiring more office space and computers. These reasons cast doubt on the passage which states that a 4 day work week with 80 percent payroll and more employees would increase the profits of the company.
Second, since the company assumes that a 4 day worker would be more efficient than a 5 day worker, the company expects the employee to complete 5 days work in just 4 days. In case the employee fails to meet the expectations, then the worker will be made to work overtime. Consequently, the employee would have an unpleasant work week. For this reason, the speaker contradicts the passage that claims that a 4 day worker would be more resourceful and alert than a 5 day worker.
Finally, though a 4 day employee will have sufficient time to pursue private interests and spend quality time with the family, the 4 day worker will have a greater job risk as compared to a 5 day worker. During a recession, the companies will lay off a 4 day worker more readily making the job less secure. It will also hinder the career advancement of the 4 day employee as the companies will prefer a 5 day worker in a managerial position to monitor the work for the complete 5 days of the week. The speaker rebuts the claims made in the passage that argues a 4 day employee would have a healthy lifestyle where in fact s/he can have stress psychologically due to reduced job security.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, if, moreover, second, so, then, as to, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => 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: 1635.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 356.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59269662921 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58886224796 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452247191011 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 496.8 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.19321483 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.0 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7333333333 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336816797936 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142688352508 0.0996497079465 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0990005924957 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226742081764 0.162205337803 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0837680181912 0.0443174109184 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.64 12.2367328918 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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