Working 4 days a week
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 is about working four days a week rather than five days, which is according to the writer will benifit companies, the countries, and employees. In response, the professor illustrates that the article opinion is not 100% true.
To begin with, the article says that from companies point of view, four days work regimen is going to increase their profits. Especially that employees are more relaxed, so they will be more alert, and they will not do costly errors. However, the professor disagrees with that, he says that this way of working is going to cost companies more, since training cost, and medical benifits for new employees will still be the same even if they work for four or five days. In addition to that, there will be additional expenses for new offices spaces, and new computers.
Second, the writer explains that the country is going to benifit from that regimen due to the decrease of the unemployment rate. According to the professor, as I mensioned earlier, hiring is costly for companies, so they prefer to offer working over time rather than having new workers. Moreover, their expectation is going to be higher. They will expect the same work quality, and the same result, regardless of the number of working days.
Finally, the lecture states that employees' quality of life will be better. They will have more free time to spend with their families and friends. In contrast, the professor says that this increase in the quality of life is not gauranteed. This work regimen decreases the job stability, and causes a feeling of risk because employees are going to feel that their companies can succeed without them, which will prevent the improvement of their quality of life.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, moreover, second, so, still, in addition, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1422.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92041522491 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45096546573 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491349480969 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 419.4 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0908253115 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.571428571 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6428571429 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 7.06452816374 91% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248975249191 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823708651633 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0775834570282 0.0662205650399 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156262588928 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0550786698227 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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