Pros
Work from home Pay is ok .
Cons
Not enough time alotted to do good quality work. Unpaid training time. I really enjoyed the job at first and still enjoy the actual work but after a few months a pattern developed; Most of the work comes up late at night but is completely random and, as a parent, this is not really the flexible work that was advertised. You have to be at the beck and call of lionbridge or you can't do enough hours each week. Tasks start appearing just as you're beginning the kids dinner and bedtimes or first thing in the morning only to vanish when you finally manage to sit down at your PC. I arranged extra childcare when I got the job but almost no work comes up during school hours in the UK. The guidelines are not clear in all circumstances and are often contradictory. They say they want your insight then say your insight was wrong. They say focus on quality then wiped 10 hours work off my timesheet (which is an archaic system) as it took too long to produce the quality work They demand. I have a slightly slow connection and a disability which affects my hands which makes it hard to meet time requirements. They dont allow time to check your work before you submit. I have had drastically varying quality scores and no real indication what was wrong except that I had given more weighting to some aspect of a task that the person who did the quality scoring. Or I had found something in my research that the scorer had not mentioned. having to second guess what other people think is very difficult. Emails asking for support go ignored. I have read a lot about sudden terminations and frankly the anxiety is starting to outweigh the pay.
