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 reading states that by offering the option of four-day workweek, there will be some advantages for companies and individual employees. The lecturer, however, finds the idea dubious nad casts doubt on the reasons proposed by the reading passage.
The author argues that this option might result in icrease in companies' profit, because in this way, employees will be more efficient at work and they are less likely to make miskate that costs a lot. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that, in this approach the companies are required to hire more employees to get their tasks done in the period of a week; so, they need more space and also more features like computers to be provided for all their employees which ends up the companies costing a lot of money.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that this option can be beneficial for the country, due to the fact that the companies will hire more and the unemployment will decrease. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that, hiring new employee costs a lot and the companies may work in another approach and start working overtime. As a result, not only do additional careers not be created, but also the works get unpleasant.
Finally, the reading asserts that working four-day workweek provides the employees with the golden opportunity to qualify their personal lives by spending more time with their family. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that working four-days brings about some risks for them and reduce their chane of promotion, also they are more likely too lose their job. All of which, could cause problems in their personal lives and reduce their enjoyness of life.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...asons proposed by the reading passage. The author argues that this option might re...
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Line 3, column 397, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sult, not only do additional careers not be created, but also the works get unple...
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Line 4, column 365, Rule ID: TOO_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'to lose'?
Suggestion: to lose
...of promotion, also they are more likely too lose their job. All of which, could cause pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, in contrast, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1415.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94755244755 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4633382049 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527972027972 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.6948977548 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.5 110.228320801 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8 7.06452816374 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 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: 0.288668894018 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114146154919 0.0996497079465 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064145460558 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169091080727 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024272456876 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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