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 inorder 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 morestaff 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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The lecture discusses the disadvantages of promoting four-day workweek instead of the current five-day workweek, casting doubt on the reading passage, which highly recommends the four-day workweek. Both the lecture and the passage analyze the possible influence of the new working schedule on the employers, the country and the employees.
Firstly, the lecture suggests that it will reduce the profit of employers or companies. The reading passage claims that since four-day employees will have less salaries, the company can hire new employees with the extra salary, resulting in no additional cost. However, according to the lecture, additional costs are highly possible. If companies hire new employees, they would need to spend extra money in training and medical insurance. Moreover, they might need to pay for larger office space and equipments such as computers. These costs will end up decrease the profit of the companies.
Secondly, the lecture holds the opinion that the unemployment rate of the country will decrease. The reading passage suggests that if companies need the same amount of work to be done, they would need to hire new employees, and thus reducing the unemployment rate. Nonetheless, the lecture argues that companies will use other methods to have the work accomplished instead of hiring new employees, such as making employees work over time during the four-day workweek, or expecting employees to be able to complete five-day work within four days. As a result, no new employees will be hired and the unemployment rate will not decrease.
Finally, the lecture disagrees that employees will enjoy a better quality of life because of the reduced workdays. The reading passages suggests that with a three-day weekend, employees will have more personal time to enjoy themselves and spend time with their families. The lecture, however, lists disadvantages such as reduced job stability. If employees choose to have four-day workweek, they might be the first ones to lose their jobs during economic downturn. In addition, they might not be promoted by the companies since they do not work for the company for as much time as the others.
In summary, the reading passage claims that four-day workweek will benefit the companies, the country and the employees. However, the lecture gives strong arguments on how they will not be benefited.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 156, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun salaries is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...that since four-day employees will have less salaries, the company can hire new empl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, in summary, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 5.04856512141 416% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1999.0 1373.03311258 146% => OK
No of words: 376.0 270.72406181 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3164893617 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68010031492 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449468085106 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 592.2 419.366225166 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1437922408 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.210526316 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7894736842 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.05263157895 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286500795959 0.272083759551 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0897278776599 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0824812793999 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175102370843 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0506173482405 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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