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 reading passage and the lecture are about reducing the number of work days for employees and whether this could be beneficial or not. The author of the reading believes that this is going to be beneficial for the economy as a whole, the companies and the employees who prefer to work fewer days as well. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that this change is going to be detrimental.
First of all, the author points out that the shortened workweek would benefit each company by increasing profits. According to the article, when employees have more time off, they will have more time to rest. As a result, employees will be more alert at work doing fewer costly mistakes. In addition, the company will hire more staff to cover the days its employees take them off work. This means more job opportunities and less unemployment. Given the company will only pay eighty percent of original pay for employees who take this option of four days workweek, there will be no additional cost for the company to hire more workers. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that this would force companies to even spend more on training new employees and health benifits. The speaker states that whether the employee works four or five days per week would not affect the cost of health benefits but increasing the number of employees by hiring more would increase the cost of healthcare for the company. On top of that, new employees would need more office space and additional computers. Consequently, all these additional costs would cut into the company profits.
Secondly, the author contends that shortened workweek would help the country by decreasing unemployment. However, the lecturer refutes this argument. He suggests that hiring more employees would end up costly to the company so companies would try to go for other options. One option is to ask employees to work overtime. Another option is to raise expectations for current employees forcing them to increase productivity. As a result, we would end up with no new jobs created and the current jobs would be more stressful and unpleasant.
Lastly, the author argues that the option of four days workweek would be better for employees by giving them more free time to spend with their families or doing other activities. The lecture ,on the other hand, posits that this would not go without cost for the employees. By choosing to work only four days, employees would risk their job stability and their career advancement. They might be passed over for promotions as companies would prefer employees who work five days to ensure continuous coverage through the entire week and consistent supervision if it was a management position
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... who prefer to work fewer days as well. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Line 7, column 192, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...s or doing other activities. The lecture ,on the other hand, posits that this woul...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, well, in addition, as a result, first of all, on the other hand, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 5.04856512141 456% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2278.0 1373.03311258 166% => OK
No of words: 461.0 270.72406181 170% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94143167028 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56528664184 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 145.348785872 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453362255965 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 670.5 419.366225166 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 13.0662251656 191% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.0653855366 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.12 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.44 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291671320413 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.09344685291 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804285464071 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198365379519 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0608147144289 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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