59% positive business outlook
Pros
Flexible scheduling, nice and helpful management, ability to work remotely
Cons
Mundane and attention demanding work, no down time, no benefits, pay is too low for level of work expected, pay raises difficult to reach minimum qualifications for
Pros
Flexible hours No customer interaction
Cons
No benefits No paid time off Low wage, barely enough to subsist in this inflationary economy. Infeasible targets for pay raise Intensive mental work and highly specialized performance targets for little reward. Takes a toll on your health, as you’re required to sit and type all day. Carpal tunnel, joint pain, and blood clots are all possible complications from doing work like this. Health insurance is consequently a must, and they don’t offer any except to the most senior employees.
Pros
Simple skill-based interview process. Basically, all they really ask you to do is type. If you're fast enough enough/they believe that they can train you to be fast enough, then you're in c: Easy scheduling. Within a couple limitations, all you really have to do is let them know how many hours you plan to work on each day, then work for that period of time. Doesn't really matter when you walk in or out of the door, so long as you finish your hours.
Cons
Time crediting. You are only paid for the hours that you are logged into the computer, and if you want to take a break there's a 30 minute minimum before the program will let you log back in. Performance-based compensation. Afaik, everyone starts at a flat $7.30 an hour, and /all/ additional pay raises are contingent upon your performance as measured by the speed with which you complete jobs. Furthermore, these pay raises are calculated on a pay period to pay period basis. This means that if you do exceptionally well for two weeks then kinda fall flat, you will only get the bonus pay for the two weeks you did well. Scheduling woes. You can always move hours forward, but backward requires either one week+ notice, a really good reason, or adding extra hours. This issue can be exacerbated if there's a larger than average amount of jobs floating around in the system. Also, there is a 16 hour a week scheduled minimum, and Saturdays and Sundays don't count towards this. Adversarial client/customer relationship. Clients are charged based on how long they take to dictate their message, and scribes are paid based on how quickly they transcribe a message. Clients want to make their message as short and dense as possible, while scribes would be better served by longer and less dense messages.
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