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Is four-day workweek better than a five-day workweek?

Is four-day workweek better than a five-day workweek? 2lLNM

Both the reading and writing discuss the idea of four day work week for an employee. The author argues that a four-day workweek is beneficial for an individual stating three reasons. However, the speaker contradicts the author and challenges all the reasons stated. Firstly, the writer explains that a short workweek would increase the company's profits as the employees are more rested and hence make few errors in their work. On the contrary, the lecture negates this argument. He argues that the company would not be benefited from a four-day workweek. He adds that since the company has to spend more money on adding more employees it would cost them more as they need to provide training and health benefits. In addition, the company also has to increase the office space and buy more computers if they hire more which would result in a decrease of their profit. Secondly, the passage talks about how the four-day workweek can help with unemployment in the country. In contrast, the lecture rebuts this statement. It put it down by explaining that since hiring is costly the company would try not to hire more people. Instead, the company would make the current employees work overtime and raise the expectations that one has to work more i. e it would expect a four-day workweek employee to do five-day work in just 4 days. As a result, this would make the employee's life unpleasant. Finally, the author also expresses his idea that a four-day workweek would give an employee more free time for himself and it would increase his quality of life and can pursue his private interests. The lecturer in the listening passage is doubtful about this. He contends that having more free time adds some risks and reduces the quality of free time. To add to the above, the employee would also have less job stability and lose his job during economic downtime. He continues that a five-day workweek employee would be given a preference for promotion as he is available the whole week to ensure and monitor the work. As you can see, the author and professor hold different views on the four-day workweek policy.

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