medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Speaker 1: The new policy banning smartphones in the office will undoubtedly increase worker focus and overall productivity. Speaker 2: It may well cut down on distractions, but it also keeps employees from dealing with urgent family matters, and the resulting stress will produce a net decline in performance.
Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 disagree over whether:
- Stress is a meaningful factor in determining how productive employees are.
- The smartphone ban will, on balance, leave worker performance better or worse than before.
- Smartphones are the leading cause of distraction in the workplace.
- Employees ought to be permitted to attend to family matters during working hours.
- The policy will succeed in reducing the number of on-the-job distractions.
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