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An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees [#permalink]
24 Sep 2007, 11:26
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An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees at SaleCo’s regional offices work not eight hours a day, five days a week, as do other SaleCo employees, but rather ten hours a day, four days a week, with Friday off. Noting this phenomenon, SaleCo’s president
plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?
A. Typically, a SaleCo employee’s least productive hours in the workplace are the early afternoon hours.
B. None of the employees who work four days a week had volunteered to work that schedule, but all were assigned to it by their supervisors.
C. Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.
D. Employees at SaleCo are compensated not on the basis of how many hours a week they work but on the basis of how productive they are during the hours they are at work.
E. Those SaleCo employees who have a four-day workweek do not take any of their office work to do at home on Fridays.
The assumption here is - Day off causing increase in productivity i.e. X causing Y, to weaken this Z causing Y so picked D ...please share your thoughts!
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Re: CR - Official GMAT - Set 21 Q22 [#permalink]
24 Sep 2007, 11:39
singh_amit19 wrote: An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees at SaleCo’s regional offices work not eight hours a day, five days a week, as do other SaleCo employees, but rather ten hours a day, four days a week, with Friday off. Noting this phenomenon, SaleCo’s president plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?
A. Typically, a SaleCo employee’s least productive hours in the workplace are the early afternoon hours. B. None of the employees who work four days a week had volunteered to work that schedule, but all were assigned to it by their supervisors. C. Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees. D. Employees at SaleCo are compensated not on the basis of how many hours a week they work but on the basis of how productive they are during the hours they are at work. E. Those SaleCo employees who have a four-day workweek do not take any of their office work to do at home on Fridays.
The assumption here is - Day off causing increase in productivity i.e. X causing Y, to weaken this Z causing Y so picked D ...please share your thoughts!
C.
Because of the alone time, employees are more productive. If the plan is implemented, then no one would have alone time; thus, the plan won't work.
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Re: CR - Official GMAT - Set 21 Q22 [#permalink]
24 Sep 2007, 11:47
bkk145 wrote: singh_amit19 wrote: An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees at SaleCo’s regional offices work not eight hours a day, five days a week, as do other SaleCo employees, but rather ten hours a day, four days a week, with Friday off. Noting this phenomenon, SaleCo’s president plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?
A. Typically, a SaleCo employee’s least productive hours in the workplace are the early afternoon hours. B. None of the employees who work four days a week had volunteered to work that schedule, but all were assigned to it by their supervisors. C. Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees. D. Employees at SaleCo are compensated not on the basis of how many hours a week they work but on the basis of how productive they are during the hours they are at work. E. Those SaleCo employees who have a four-day workweek do not take any of their office work to do at home on Fridays.
The assumption here is - Day off causing increase in productivity i.e. X causing Y, to weaken this Z causing Y so picked D ...please share your thoughts! C. Because of the alone time, employees are more productive. If the plan is implemented, then no one would have alone time; thus, the plan won't work.
BINGO man!!!.....I know it was a easy one, I hate when i get questions wrong with such silly mistakes, i couldn't read it completely.
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Re: CR - Official GMAT - Set 21 Q22 [#permalink]
24 Sep 2007, 21:34
bkk145 wrote: singh_amit19 wrote: An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees at SaleCo’s regional offices work not eight hours a day, five days a week, as do other SaleCo employees, but rather ten hours a day, four days a week, with Friday off. Noting this phenomenon, SaleCo’s president plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?
A. Typically, a SaleCo employee’s least productive hours in the workplace are the early afternoon hours. B. None of the employees who work four days a week had volunteered to work that schedule, but all were assigned to it by their supervisors. C. Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees. D. Employees at SaleCo are compensated not on the basis of how many hours a week they work but on the basis of how productive they are during the hours they are at work. E. Those SaleCo employees who have a four-day workweek do not take any of their office work to do at home on Fridays.
The assumption here is - Day off causing increase in productivity i.e. X causing Y, to weaken this Z causing Y so picked D ...please share your thoughts! C. Because of the alone time, employees are more productive. If the plan is implemented, then no one would have alone time; thus, the plan won't work.
nice!
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Re: CR - Official GMAT - Set 21 Q22
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