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.
Questions:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The reading states that reducing one day work time in week at 80% salary of their previous salary would good for economy as well as for comapny and their workers. However, the lecture suggest otherwise.
First, shortened workweek and hiring more stuff would reduce the error in working because workers would be more focus and would give more profit for company. But lecture argues that this will not be the case. Because, more stuff needs traning, medication, more office space and computers which will increase the cost of the company.
Second, the reading suggest it will lower the overall unemployment rate due to hiring more workers at lower salary but the lecture opposes the view. It says company will try to convince workers to do overwork or the management can think that workers can do the same job in reduce work-hour in week, which will not ultimately decrease the overall unemployment.
Third, the reading thinks that this shortened workweek will be good for individual workers by saying that they can spend more time with their families , invest time in private interests or enjoy leisure. However the the speaker denies this by indicating risk of job stability. In the economic downtown they may loss their job. Employees may lose focus from their career as a result their promotion may block due to less progress in job. So, overall it will increase more risk in their career.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 150, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... can spend more time with their families invest time in private interests or enjo...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...vate interests or enjoy leisure However the the speaker denies this by indicating risk ...
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Line 7, column 210, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...vate interests or enjoy leisure However the the speaker denies this by indicating risk ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, may, second, so, third, well, as for, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1141.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85531914894 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2227027296 2.5805825403 86% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502127659574 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => 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: 235.0 21.2450331126 1106% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1141.0 110.228320801 1035% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 235.0 21.698381199 1083% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 82.0 7.06452816374 1161% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177427691642 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.177427691642 0.0996497079465 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111845115952 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054138385875 0.0443174109184 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 119.0 13.3589403974 891% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -158.59 53.8541721854 -294% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 93.8 11.0289183223 850% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.39 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 18.65 8.42419426049 221% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 54.0 10.7273730684 503% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 96.0 10.498013245 914% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 94.0 11.2008830022 839% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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