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Non-production time estimate - Fedup
Posted: May 28, 2015
How much time daily would you estimate you spend on non-production tasks such as Fiesa, email, and researching?
Too much - QC2015
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Too much if you're on production. Any minute that your are not actively QC'ing, you are losing money, no matter what you are doing. No doubt about it!
Let's say, you are in a report and have to email the MLS with a critical error and it takes you 2 min to look her email address up in Fiesa, formulate the email and get back to your report, if you do 20 reports a day and you do this on each, you are losing 40 min of productive time.
It's costing you time, you are not being paid for, no matter how you twist and turn it.
One hour to account for all that you mentioned. - Easily, one hour.
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Emails re: stats to MCR, waiting for reports to download add to it, though.
Two hours would be reasonable - wtfe
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Was back in the day, when first starting transcription, a supervisor actually said 2 hours was reasonable for researching, etc. I'm sure she was including breaks as part of that day though.
Honestly, not that much time - anon
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Fiesa, less than 5 minutes. Email, I open it but there is rarely anything in there. No updates, just a quick word here and there about customer complaints or whatever. Researching? I spend very little time researching any more. Google searches are rather quick and if it does not come up quick on google, I blank it. I may research more if my pend percentage is high, but I figure the new system does not reward me for spending too much time looking for an obscure physician's name, etc.
time - anony
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Even 10 minutes a day is close to an hour a week, 52 weeks in a year, so 52 hours of unpaid time per MLS/QA. Times however many MLS and QA equals a whole lotta money being stolen.
Unpaid time - Mudbug
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Contact National Labor Relations Board. They told me to keep track of every minute of unpaid time required by company. I am billing them after I retire with the help of NLRB.
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