In the recture, the professor shows the actual experience about 4 day work. And this showed that it had a many drawbacks to companies, employees and national economy. This fact oppoe the results that is shown in reading passage.
Firstly, 4-day work was not beneficial to company. Since company should finish their 5-day work within 4days they needed to hire more employees and trained them for actual work. More over they needed more facilities to support additional employees. This directly gave companies financial burden. So, this fact rebuts the passage's idea that 4-day work is beneficial to company because of low salary
Secondly, acoording to experience reducing work day was not good for employees. Because 4-day workers were less competitive than 5-day, they felt unstable in their work place. And, in the view of their work skill, 4-day workers didn't have enough time for improve their job skills. This experience contradicts the passage's idea that 4-day work gives benefit to employees by offering more free time
Lastly, the four-day workweek is not good for the economy. In the experience, because of reduced income, people tended to spend less money. This directly effect the production industry. And it gave an negative effect on local economy. This directly oppose the passage's idea that reducing workweek is not good decision to economy. |