carouselambra wrote:
mSKR wrote:
I am curious to confirm the reason to reject C.
C is rejected because it is out of scope as our scope is limited to traditional pension plans?
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EducationAisle: please give your opinion.
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Hi,
An important thing that you need to remember henceforth is that NO answer should merely be marked incorrect owing to to reasons such as 'Out of scope' , 'Irrelevant' etc. You should be able to deduce how the option is related/unrelated to the conclusion and apply your understanding based on the premise.
Coming to the question now :
A requirement of traditional pension plans is that an employee work for a company a number of years before gaining full rights to benefits from the company’s plan on retirement. Companies used this requirement to help them retain employees, but recent regulations have substantially reduced the number of years of work a company can require.
Nevertheless, companies have not experienced any significant loss of employees.Which of the following, if true, helps to explain why companies are not experiencing problems in retaining employees?
(C)
Most (means <50 to ALL, but we do not know how many) companies that do
not offer traditional pension plans offer plans in which their employees enjoy rights to retirement benefits as soon as they enter employment.
Now, answer the below questions for me and then we can take this discussion forward.
1. How is (C) related to the premise of the passage that states "A requirement of traditional pension plans" / "Companies used this requirement to help them retain employees" ?
2. Option (C) states a fact -OK. But please help me understand you linked this with the conclusion of the passage?
"but recent regulations have substantially reduced the number of years of work a company can require.
Nevertheless, companies have not experienced any significant loss of employees. "
Does option (C) assure us that just because most companies (again, we do not know how many) do NOT offer (please note that this wasn't even the subject of the premise) traditional benefit plans, employees will opt for it.
Awaiting your response. Cheers!
Thanks
carouselambra for analyzing .
1. How is (C) related to the premise of the passage that states "A requirement of traditional pension plans" / "Companies used this requirement to help them retain employees" ?
2. Option (C) states a fact -OK. But please help me understand you linked this with the conclusion of the passage?
"but recent regulations have substantially reduced the number of years of work a company can require.
Nevertheless, companies have not experienced any significant loss of employees. "
Does option (C) assure us that just because most companies (again, we do not know how many) do NOT offer (please note that this wasn't even the subject of the premise) traditional benefit plans, employees will opt for it.
Here is my thought for the queries you raised for me to self analyze.
>> C talks about companies that don't use traiditonal pension plan. But argument scope is concerned with traditional pension plans.
That's why I wanted to reject as " non relevant" because C option talks about something we should not be concerned about.
Question: why companies are not experiencing problems in retaining employees?
However C highlights some new fact that more than 50% companies don't follow traditional pension plan and hence it doesn't effect them retaining of employees.
so far so good.
Undoubtedly , we can reject C on basis of non-relevance as you highlight in the post.
A is good enough answer.
Let's say A is not present. Nevertheless, companies have not experienced any significant loss of employees.here is another perspective on C: ( maybe weak perspective ). please check:-
With this statement , significant highlights not too much . maybe still some left the company and companies expereince some little problems in general.
It means that this small problem is due to still traditional pension plans . but since most of the companies dnt follow traiditional pension plan then in general it doesnot appear to show any problem.
( similar to : government has changed rules in sending SMS . But it doesn't affect people , why? because most of people use https://gmatclub.com/chat, facebook , etc etc.
Do you think C has slight chance of even correct answer.
I think C could be considered in absence of A as explained with above thought.