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.
Both the reading and the listening talks about the benefits and downside of four-day work week policy requested by the employees. The former provides possible improvements in the life of the employee having a four-day work week, but the latter talks about the issues the policy will create.
First of all, the passage suggests that the employees who work for four day a week will feel more relaxed and their work would be more accurate for 80 percent of their salary and with this the company can hire more staff and the company profits will increase. However, the professor in the lecture contends that there would be additional costs with hiring more employees and less profit for the company as the company will have to look after the training and the medical benefit of the new employee. The company would require more work space and also more computer that would further increase the money spent by the company.
Second of all, the passage mentions that with this policy in action the unemployment rate in the country will decrease exponentially. On the other hand, the professor argues that this policy will not create new job availability as the company will expect the employee to complete the task in 4 days which they normally did in 5 days. This will require the employees to sometime work overtime in turn make their job more unpleasant compared to the current situation.
Finally, the passage talks about the betterment in the quality of life of the employee who can work with a lower salary. Nevertheless, like the two suggestions before, the professor in the lecture proclaims that this is not beneficial to the employees because, the company will try to promote an employee who can continue the progress and also supervise for five days instead of 4 days. The professors also mentions that these employees won't have any stability as they will be the first to be fired during a crisis.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => 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: 1580.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84662576687 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4580411309 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472392638037 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 483.3 419.366225166 115% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.2455076518 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.636363636 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6363636364 21.698381199 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.36363636364 7.06452816374 133% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.367747600331 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156478866205 0.0996497079465 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789162522943 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243263154429 0.162205337803 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040687229027 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => 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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