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 passage introduces a policy about changing the working days into four days a week, which previously used to be five days a week. The author states that such change will bring overall positive development in the economy of the country, the company and their employees. However, the lecturer in the audio disagrees. He says that such policy change would neither encourage any economic development, nor provide any additional profit in the company or any benefit to their employees.
First, the author in the reading passage says that working four days a week will result in increment of profit in the company, since lesser working days will improve the productivity as employees will be well-rested and make less error. But, the author does not agree with this as he believes that more cost will be incurred due to hiring of more number of workers, resulting in more training and higher medical costs. He also states that office expenses will increase drastically as there will be requirement of more office space and computers as well.
Secondly, the reading passage also mentions a boost in the country's economy due to higher employment rate. However, the lecturer in the audio contradicts this by saying that instead of hiring more employees, the company will expect the current employees to deliver the required outcome at lesser time in order to reduce the company cost. Hence, this lower working days may not guarantee more hiring in the company, which will not contribute significantly in solving the problem of unemployment. Similarly, the lecturer also disagrees with the author about benefiting the employees through this change in policy. He believes that lesser working hours might result in job instability among the employees. The employees might suffer from shortage of time to hand-in their completed task affecting their performance. This might potentially jeopardize their career as well as chances of promotion.
Hence, you can clearly see that the author and the lecturer hold quite a different view about this change in the number of working days per week.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, similarly, so, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1757.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 340.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16764705882 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59470281515 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479411764706 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 540.0 419.366225166 129% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2142078168 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.133333333 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6666666667 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306519328609 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.098972940009 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0965000947048 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189660295479 0.162205337803 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388540962989 0.0443174109184 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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