from toefl exam. thanks a lot! The speaker and the author hold divergent attitudes toward whether the company should shorten workweek to four-day instead of five. According to the passage, the author think there is lots of benefits for company as well as society. Through relevant reasons and examples, the lecturer extensively refutes the optimistic viewpoints stated in the reading material. As the passage declares, a company that allows employees to have fewer working hours can hiring more staff to ensure the work be accomplished on time without additional costs. Also the employees who enjoy more leisure time make fewer mistakes and work more efficiently to increase the company's profits. To rebut this idea, the professor claims that it actually forth company to spend more. Hiring more worker always requires more computers and more spaces. Training before work and things like that also costs a bunch of money.Thus, the assumption of the author is severely weakened. Second, the author says that the policy would reduce unemployment rates for the whole country. Yet the professor insists that the company would expect the employee to finish the five-day's job within four days rather than hire more people. So even though the employee get an extra day, they will work later every night to finish the job that the leader expect them to do. Obviously, this forms a sharp contradiction against what is stated by the write. Finally, opposing the author's belief that the employee could improve the quality of their lives, the professor contends that the employee would afraid that they can't get promote because the leader more intend to raise those one who work five days a week which completely rejects the opinion shown in the passage.