According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article?
(A) On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office. (B) 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office. (C) At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked. (D) At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office. (E) Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article? A On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office. -> this is not correct since there is a possibility that 75 % of the employees might work more than 8 hrs -> eliminate B 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office. -> they may be equally productive or less. -> eliminate C At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked. ->Yes this sounds the best since if at all we take the worst case of 10% of nonproductive employees from thios chunk of 25% people working less than 1 hr.remaining 15% dont define productivity in terms of the number of hrs worked since they work less than one hr. IMO (C) D At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office. -> this is vague since they say 90% are more productive at home than at office hence 10% can be overlaping with this 25% mentioned -> eliminate E Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true. ->irrelevant and out of scope if the given argument-> eliminate
90% believe that they are more productive working at home than working in their office. So if by maximum 100%-90%=10% believe that they work less in home Hence 25-(less than 10%,by maximum 100%-90%=10% belive that they work less in home )=more than 15% of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours
So my answer is C At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.
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According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article? A On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office. B 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office. C At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked. D At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office. E Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
Between B or C for me. I went for C.
B - 90% are more productive at home than in office. The remaining 10% can possibly find it just as productive. hence, this is wrong
C - Suppose we have 100 employees. 25 work less than 1 hour at home. 90 feel they are more productive at home. So 10 employees feel they are more productive at work. Assume this is the same bunch of people who work less than 1 hour from home. So out of the 25, 15 work less than 1 hour AND they still feel they are more productive at home. They must have a different measure of productivity.
According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article? A On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office. B 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office. C At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked. D At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office. E Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
C seems to be closer after reading the argument twice
A => can not be the answer as the question stem just talks about only 25% of the associates working from home B => can not be the answer as the question stem does not say whether the 25% of the associates completed 8 hours of work in 1 hour or the productive of the other associates working from home C => seems closer as 90%(25%) say they are effective at home D => This certainly says they finished work in 8 hours E => Not relevant
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Picked C. Disregarded B due to its wording. The stem says 90% 'believe' - which is a subjective opinion - and B extends the opinion to make a statement (something as a matter of fact). I say, one can't make factual statements based on a subjective opinion. In my opinion, a proper answer can only include another subjective statement.
Last edited by rkurra on Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:38 am, edited 1 time in total.
I selected B on this only because I thought the 90% referred to "those same office employees" I took this as a reference back to 25% of those same employees that sometimes work from home less than 1 hour. So the question stem was not clear on this.
I could see how B can be vague as well because employees could consider themselves to be just as productive. But that was the best answer I saw that made sense.
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