What are co-workers like at VITAC?

Started out amazing. Great colleagues with diverse backgrounds, interesting content to caption, easy to commute to, paid Ubers for nightshift staff, schedule flexibility, decent pay.

Little to no advancement within company, worsening work conditions (captioning upwards of 7 hours entirely alone), unnecessary updates to system that complicated things, indifferent upper management.

- The people you are coworkers with are all cool people, especially in RTS. Shoutout to SF, I didn’t get to say good bye but I enjoyed working with you so much! - Remote job - Decent benefits for full time - Genuinely, this used to be the best job I ever had when I first started.

- Good luck getting hours if you’re not highly rated - You will try and and try and improve but the software they use is outdated and prone to making errors even if you do your best to try and mitigate them. - In the past, managers were hands on and there were a lot of opportunities to train for new service lines but somewhere along the long line of layoffs it just stopped and everything got worse. By the end, I was having constantly anxiety attacks thinking about the pressures and isolation of the job. - No opportunities for advancement.

great people and a fun environment

none honestly very time sensitive job

The only positive was being able to work remotely.

Verbit/Vitac are funny because they'll simultaneously lay people off while they are short-staffed. We have been on mandatory overtime for several weeks in a row. I'm not sure why they think this is acceptable or normal. They want to work with a skeleton crew of offline captioners and they just won't hire any new ones. I checked their job openings every day and will continue to check regularly. They even told us "perhaps we'll need to hire more captioners soon" and still, their job openings page never reflected that. 100 people and two managers who were both great people were laid off a month or so ago because they were too senior and accumulated too many raises. All this company cares about is $$$$. Yair Amsterdam thinks AI will be able to replace us which is funny because he definitely doesn't know how bad the AI generated captions are. In fact, whenever I was given an AI generated transcript to work with, it slowed me down and created more work because they needed so many corrections. The human-made transcripts were significantly better. The manager who hired me was laid off as well as 100 or more other employees, and that occured in March (when the CEO gets his bonus). It was clear to me that the people who were laid off were older and accumulated raises over time which is why they were laid off. This company only cares about $$$ and it will be their downfall. I encourage other captioners to quit and start working for themselves. Cleaning houses, pressure washing, landscaping, pet sitting, and other trades will all pay you better and you won't be forced to work mandatory overtime.

decent pay, good people, camraderie in a bad situation

upper management are either incompetent or actively criminal, hors and location are brutal

Work from home. Work from Home

Management and C-suite does not care about employees

Met some really good people while working there

Tone at the top was terrible

Work from home; can choose your own schedule; health insurance if you're full-time; lots of smart, cool people as your coworkers. You learn a lot because you're captioning a ton of cool stuff.

I never once got a raise.. they keep everyone at a base rate.. no room for real advancement.. job insecurity because they fire people indiscriminately. Awful company that used to be great.

None anymore. Morale's at an all-time low

Some amazing people have been laid off despite the fact that we are short-staffed, overworked, and not able to meet deadlines. The company is a sinking ship.

Remote working and international team,

Micromanagement by parent company (Verbit) is overwhelming.