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In reply to the discussion: The jobs are going whether we sign agreements or not. [View all]LiberalElite
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in the large office where I work there were over 300 secretaries 25 years ago. Now, there are 29. Why? Computers.
There are online businesses hawking the merits of work-from-home jobs. Many of these jobs with decent pay and benefits were once in offices. Now, you're often in competition with people from all over the world and working for peanuts. Benefits are limited to not much more than being able to work in your pajamas. A typical typing/transcribing job pays by the "audio hour." So, if one of these employers states it pays $10 an audio hour (which is considered good), don't get excited. That works out to an actual $3.00 an hour, because it generally takes 3 minutes of typing to transcribe 1 minute of audio.