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Question on productivity email - MT
Posted: Jun 19, 2012
They give your gross SR lph and your net SR lph and also average gross SR lph and average net SR lph. By the average lph, do they mean what most people do?
No, they mean your average per hour. -nm - On My Way Out
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Of course, on this email they stated they do not count transcription lines so I think somehow the ASR average is skewed. I was under the average gross and net for ASR for the first time ever but I had an abundance of typing lines which weren't counted and dropped my average ASR lines.
On the whole though yes I do believe the average gross and net is just that, the average of all MTs and your gross and net is how you stack up. But remember that everyone's case is different with familiar dictators versus rolling out into unfamiliar accounts or accounts with lots of standards and obviously too how much straight typing or MME work you do.
Yes, you are correct - sm
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The average gross and net is an average across the company.
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