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 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 morestaff 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 article states that a mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths of their normal pay will benefit the economy, the companies and the workers and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that this change will not generate any effect and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading states that a short 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. The professor opposes this point by saying that companies might, in fact, spend more money with less workweek. He explains that the businesses will need to add new workers, creating more costs with training, for example. Also, the cost of health care do not consider the work hours, in that way, increasing the number of employees will increase this cost too. The professor also explains that companies will need more space and computers to accommodate the new staff.
Second, the article claims that this option would reduce unemployment rates. However, the professor contends that, as he explained before, companies might not hire new employees. Moreover, they will try to force actual workers to work overtime. Also, the bosses will raise their expectations because they will expect that these employees will do their jobs in the same way they have done on a four-day workweek. In sum, no new jobs will be created.
Third, the reading avers that this change would be better for individual employees. Conversely, the lecture refutes this point by stating that there are risks that this option will reduce the workers' quality of live. He explains that a short workweek would decrease job stability, so employees will also create fewer expectations of advancing on their careers. In addition, companies will stay trying to find workers that will be able to supervise an entire workweek, instead of the eighty percent reduction.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, third, for example, in addition, in fact, as a result, in the same way
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: 24.0 5.04856512141 475% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1691.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18711656442 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44424638625 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51226993865 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0633253236 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.6875 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.375 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 7.06452816374 115% => 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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244677487588 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0796030640997 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0830854887915 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180503265365 0.162205337803 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0949225059271 0.0443174109184 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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