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 reading and the lecture are both about employment scheduling status in the United States. The author of the reading believes that it is beneficial to have employees who works in a four day week schedule. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the article and refutes all the theories presented. He thinks that employees who has four days schedule in a week will have less chance for career advancement.
First of all, the author points out that shortened schedule of employee would result in increase of company sales. The article states that it is due to employee will feel more relaxed and attentive, hence, the work force will be more efficient. The point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that companies will be forced to spend more money for their employees. He also argues that company will need to hire more workers and it costly because of their training and medical benefit packages. Also, they need more office space and additional computers and the costs only doubled by doing that, but the profit for the company declines as a result.
Secondly, the author contends that the country would benefit from it because number of employment rate will decline. The article notes that full time employees work schedule will be reduced, as a result, other employee will be given a chance for employment. However, the lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that employing additional manpower would hurt the companies income. He elaborates on this by mentioning that, the only thing that they see that can help the company is by asking their workers for overtime. Also, employers raise their expectation with their staff because they feel that the 4 days employee can also do the work load of 5 days employee and the end result would be that no jobs will be added.
Finally, the author states that the change in work days would benefit the employee itself. The article establishes that in fewer work schedule they can have quality of live because they can spend time for their family, friends and personal enjoyment. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that staff will reduce their quality of life. He puts forth that employees will feel that they have less stability and their career would be at risk as a result. Moreover, 4 day employee lose their chance for career advancement and promotion because 5 days employee has more edge to have a position in the company.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 161, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rticle states that it is due to employee will feel more relaxed and attentive, he...
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Line 5, column 141, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...te will decline. The article notes that full time employees work schedule will be reduced...
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Line 5, column 365, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'companies'' or 'company's'?
Suggestion: companies'; company's
...ying additional manpower would hurt the companies income. He elaborates on this by mentio...
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Line 7, column 470, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'employee' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'employees'.
Suggestion: employees
...be at risk as a result. Moreover, 4 day employee lose their chance for career advancemen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 5.04856512141 456% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 12.0772626932 182% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 22.412803532 214% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2004.0 1373.03311258 146% => OK
No of words: 411.0 270.72406181 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87591240876 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38677574495 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450121654501 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 601.2 419.366225166 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => 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: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1593980263 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4285714286 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85714285714 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 4.33554083885 277% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.316999365755 0.272083759551 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103765988113 0.0996497079465 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085276750757 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220105881698 0.162205337803 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052235466982 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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