Weaken--Saleco

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Weaken--Saleco

by amysky_0205 » Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:00 am
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.

OA: C

can someone explain this in detail?
it's a little confusing to me...
thank u!!!
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by Sapana » Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:10 pm
amysky_0205 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.

OA: C

can someone explain this in detail?
it's a little confusing to me...
thank u!!!
I was able to solve this problem by POE. In C, And. says, productive workers were productive because they were able to work 2 hours in a day undisturbed by fellow employees. If the plan by president of SaleCo is implemented, then their productivity will go down because they wont have that 2 hours/day of undisturbed time. This answer basically says that it was not the 10 hours a day for 4 days reason behind the success of the productive employees, but the 2 hours/day of undisturbed time which makes them more productive.