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In the lecture, the speaker states that offering the four-day workweek will not increase the profits of a company, reduce the unemployment rate and improve the quality of workers' lives. Actually, it will somehow have some negative effects.
First of all, the lecturer thinks that this policy will not increase company profits. On the contrast, it will force company to spend more. Adding new employees means more money to invest. And company needs to provide extra training programs and same medical benefits. In addition, more workers requires more office spaces and computers, as a result, these additional cost will cut the profits. Thus, the speaker disagrees with the view made in the reading.
Moreover, according to the lecture, the overall unemployment condition may not follow with the option of four-day workweek. It would be costly if company hires more workers, and company sometimes has other choices, it would ask their employees to work overtime to make up the different. In addition, company will raise job expectations for employees, company will start to expect the same amount of work employees used to do in five-day workweek. If this happened, no more jobs created and make current job unpleasant.
Finally, working four days a week also has risks and will end up lowering the quality of life. As the speaker said, employees work shorter can reduce their jobs stability and as a result harm their chances for advancing careers. And the four-day employees are likely to be the first to lose their jobs during an economic downturn; they would be passed over for promotion because the company prefers to have five-day employees in management positions for ensure continuous coverage and consistent supervision.
To sum up, the contents in the passage are jeopardized by the speaker who has completely different points about the policy. |
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发表于 2012-2-22 14:43:29
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