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Both reading and listening deal with the same topic about working four-day week. The reading passage asserts that a working a four-day policy makes companies and their employees get more benefits. However, The lecturer brings several points to contradict the reading passage. First of all, the reading passage insists that the four-day workweek policy allows companies to increase their profits since employees feel rested and alert. So they make fewer mistakes during their working. In contrast, the lecturer refutes the reading passage by explaining that it makes companies spend more money on new employee's health care, office space, and computers. Secondly, the author in the reading passage describes that this option to employees can decrease unemployment rates because if full-time workers begin to work fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Nonetheless, the professor casts doubt on the point by delineating that companies would reinforce workers to do the same amount work during the same time. Lastly, the writer in the reading passage mentions that this policy helps workers to have more free time. Hence the quality of their lives will increase. On the other hand, the speaker in the lecture counters the writer's contention by accounting that it has risk. To be specific, it would be bad for their careers.
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