No, Acusis is the company that started in India, and

• Any comments on the Acusis/DRC meeting? - LowKey
  • I just wish they'd find another conference call - provider - sound quality was horrid!
    • Agreed... it was pretty bad! sm - LowKey
      • Yeah, I'm going to miss J. Very down-to-earth - and approachable. To me,
  • changes - Lets keep it that way
    • Aren't they the company that laid off a bunch of MTs and - me
      • No, Acusis is the company that started in India, and - then expanded to the U.S.
        • I have a friend who worked with me at MQ - blackswan
          • Whoops - blackswan
        • DRC was in California... sm - LowKey
          • Actually, Pittsburgh . . . - KentuckyMT
      • NO, but nice try at stirring the pot. ;-) nm - LowKey
        • they did lay off- didnt outsource but laid off a lot - no name
          • Correct --did NOT off-shore work to India sm - LowKey
            • I know the difference between outsouce and offshore and I didn't - me
              • Yes, my friend wanted me to apply there - blackswan
                • Oh, Lordy... NO Layoffs! sm - LowKey
                • the layoffs... - AcusisMT
                  • Yes. it was about a year ago - blackswan
              • All I know is that... sm - LowKey

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Valuable lesson learned.  Never go to work for a company that is based on offshoring because they'll simply pull the rug out from under you.  I don't mean to sound heartless and I wish I had jobs to offer all the American MTs but I don't.

However, Mr. Ormond said the firm's transcription business started in India, and the company tried to bring it to the United States but it wasn't profitable. -- from the article. 

Those of us in the business a long time knew where their center of business was located from the beginning.

They do outsource, and the company is NOT in India. The pay was always on time, as well. 

Anirudh Baheti (an Indian) started the company and sold it to Nuance for 58 million dollars last year.

Just an FYI, Mr. Baheti also owns a company called Focus Care which is a service that recruitis Indian nurses, trains them to pass the US nursing boards, and then places them in US hospitals to work for a much lower wage than an American nurse earns.

Mr. Baheti also owns/owned a company called Focus Enterprises which deals in industrial tubes and pipes.

Tell me again how this is US based company?

He may have sold out to Nuance in March of 2007, but he still runs the show!  Second of all they are absolutely NOT bringing any accounts whatsoever back to the U.S.  That's just plain fabrication, deceit, lies, BS -- whatever you prefer to call it.  It just ain't true!  They just recently laid off the majority of the American QA staff and have forced the skeleton American crew they have left to go to production.

The lie that they are bringing work back to the U.S. was started and perpetuated in January of this year as a negotiating tactic to get the Indians to continue to work for peanuts instead of giving them more money.  When the Indians called their bluff, they hired a bunch of American QA people only to fire them at the end of April, beginning of May when the Indians caved.

And finally, they are an Indian run company and their QA and MT staff is 80% Indian.  I have the actual figures given to me by the Director of US Operations at Focus.  Focus employs 3800 Indians!  Does that sound like a U.S. company to you?

Oh, and the Director of Recruitment posted that 90% of their operation is in the U.S.!!!!!  He flat out lies.  He also says everyone laid off got a nice severance package.  Total BS!  Half of those laid off had to call the company and scream bloody murder when their checks were deposited as promised.  The other half will be calling tomorrow!

starting out right out of the gate producing around 2200-2500 lines in 6 hours, best I have EVER done since leaving my local clinic and going with a huge company.  However, it seems that once the honeymoon was over, things started to change and now, on the same dictators, I barely get 1600 lines in a day.  It is a Word-based program and in the beginning I had no problems with the programs opening or typing in them and now they seem to freeze all of the time which, of course, slows my production tremendously.  I cannot figure out if it is my computer or something that they have in the program to keep you from doing over a certain amount in a day, which I am not sure why they would. 

whose workforce is predominantly Indian?  You're okay with the loss of American jobs, the falling recession we are in and the falling economy due in big part to the offshoring of American jobs?  How okay will you be when you lose your job to an Indian and you have to apply for food stamps and unemployment?

Sell-out MTs like you are the reason good MTs cannot make a decent wage anymore, why good MTs cannot find a good job anymore, and why sweats shops in third world countries are thriving.  How do you look at yourself in the mirror?

Focus Infomatics employs 800 American MTs and over 3000 Indian MTs.  Tech support is in India.  The company itself is still run by the same Indian man who started the company and sold out to Nuance.  He made a bundle when he sold and he is still making a bundle running the company while he pays his own countrymen and woman peanuts!  He's selling out his own people and you are selling out yours!  On second thought, I guess you belong at Focus with your own kind!

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I am in the process of testing with Acusis. Can anyone give me the good/bad and the ugly about this company. 

TIA

consistently run out of work.  I have my resume out.   Been working there fore 6-1/2 years and now it is time to go with no work every week.

What a time to find out about the loss of their biggest client -- just before the holidays.  How many will be out of work?