Clarify argument stem: Of those employees who typically work

[shailendra.sharma]

According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.

The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article?


A) On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office.

B) 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office.

C) At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.

D) At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office.

E) Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.

I want to clarify why "those same employees" in bold above, can not refer to the restrictive set "those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day", but it refers to full set "those office employees" ?

If we do so then (C) can not be the OA and actually none can be OA.

My question is what makes "those same employees" refer to "all the employees" and not "the restrictive set" ?

[jlucero]

This is talking about the same office employees they reference first- the ones who work at least 8 hours at work and less than 1 hour at home.

"If I said, 50% of my 10 employees work from home and 40% of those employees will be laid off", I am saying that 40% of 50% of my employees will be laid off.

The assumption here is that since the employees work only 1 hour at home, they must be less productive at work. Answer C refutes this assumption by saying there is more to productivity than hours worked.