Digital Audio Transcription / Working from home

pollyanna24

I work in a very small law firm. One lawyer and me.

I am going on maternity leave soon and would like to come back to work 3 days a week, but I would also like to have the ability to do some audio work / telephone work from home.

We have skirted the issue, but neither me nor my boss are very technical minded.

Is it easy enough to set up at home? I have had initial chats with the guy who comes in to sort out our computer problems, but nothing in depth. He has mentioned something called "Teamviewer" which he uses to access my computer remotely.

At the moment, we use audio transcription, but the old style with tapes, not digital, so I'm guessing some expense would have to be laid out there. Is it difficult to use? My boss would somehow have to get the stuff to me, I'm guessing email?

And I would need access to all the documents that are on my computer at work as well.

Also, is is possible for the work phone to be diverted to my mobile or landline (not that I have a landline at the moment), so that I could still take calls and put them through to him?

Just testing the water at the moment to see if it is viable.

fwor

It's definitely viable - plenty of people do that and much more complex things working from home. In some respects you are spoiled for choice, as there are numerous ways to do what you want to.

However, one question that will probably need to be answered before going any further: what is your employer's view of security and confidentiality?

This will probably cause you to consider something like a Virtual Private Network, rather than just buying a digital voice recorder and emailing files across the net, though even here there are quite a few alternatives that could be made reasonably secure.