Critical Reasoning

A company has decided to monitor how long their employees spend at lunch and on break. What would be a potential consequence of this action?


1)

The company will be better able to distinguish between delinquent and diligent employees.

2)

Employees will be more careful and avoid long breaks.

3)

Employees will be stressed about having to reduce their break time.

4)

Labour turnover will increase as a result of implementing such a policy.

5)

None of the above

My answer is 1.I will not go with 2 because employees don't know if they are being monitored and may be the company is working on making a list of employees who are diligent and delinquent to promote them or give incentive accordingly.I MAY BE WRONG.

Given answer:2 /which i dont think is right.What do you guys think?

This question is not very GMATy. But i think Option 1 is tempting. But then monitoring break duration should be the only criterion to judge productivity. Taking long breaks is defenitely possible so as to cheat. But it is equally possible to cheat at work. So option 1 is just a possibility. But answer 2 is defentely possible and employees will defenteily avoid long breaks since they are monitored.