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.
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Both the reading passage and lecture discuss whether four days work week would be beneficial. The former engages that there are three benefits to individual employees, the company, and the overall nations as well, but the latter contradicts each of these points.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that the four-day workweek would be effective for the organization by increasing more rested hours for the employees, making less expensive mistakes during work hours, and requiring less payment. However, the lecture contends that if the company shortens their workweeks, then additional workers would be required for performing the rest of the work and might increase the cost. Extra space, extra computer, and training should be required which leads the company to incur a high amount of cost.
Secondly, the text asserts that the nations would be beneficial through increasing more workforce in the company, as reducing workweek requires more employees for performing additional tasks. In contrast, the listening counters that there might not be a possibility of creating new additional jobs because the company would force the existing workers for doing extra workers. For example, employees might have to do the same work as five days work week which makes the tasks unpleasant towards them.
In third, the reading passage mentions that the four-day workweek gives the employee an opportunity to spend more time with family members and personal activities as they have much available time. On the other hand, the lecture contradicts that it would not be helpful for individual workers because less payroll decreases their lifestyle standards. In addition, less working hours reduce their job ability, promotional opportunities, and in case of economic downtown, they would be the first position to lose jobs. The organization never considers fewer hours workers to promote their managerial positions.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, well, for example, in addition, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1627.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44147157191 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63107202796 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551839464883 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4693378525 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.583333333 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9166666667 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3333333333 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.277263223979 0.272083759551 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106974264064 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827971582054 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176437391593 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366475518333 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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