Pretty good - Recensione dipendente - Transcriptionist presso Verbal Ink

If you do your job right, you will have plenty of work.

Work can be slow around holidays.

It's a work from home position. The company does have admins to allocate jobs to typists rather than just putting work out there for their not- employee employees to fight over, first come first served, catch as catch can style. They send you a card that's signed by some of the office staff for your birthday, and I got a 25$ Amazon gift voucher as a Christmas bonus.

Although they pay about the going rate, they don't actually pay very well. Most of the jobs I received from Verbal were about $0.85 an audio minute. Everything is 24 hour or less turnaround, and they allocate jobs in such a way that you'll end up working a certain set of hours that they dictate to you in order to meet deadlines, which sort of defeats the set your own schedule aspect of doing at home transcription work. As you're classed as an 'independent subcontractor', there's no benefits or even a safety net for things like RSI type injuries. Technically, you have the right to refuse jobs as an indie subcontractor, but actually doing so means no more work from Verbal, ever. Job allocation is erratic - some weeks you might get more work than you know what to do with, others, you won't get anything at all. So you effectively get to be a poorly paid employee with no benefits who's on call 24/7.