Recognized AGAIN as One of the Charlotte Region's Best Places to Work!
Every year, the Charlotte Business Journal releases its "Best Places to Work" list for the Charlotte region. And Choice Translating is on that list for the second year in a row!
That's right! Choice Translating has been recognized as having benefits, policies, and practices in place that are among the area's best, with scoring based on employee surveys!
Read the Full Article at Charlotte Business Journal.
When Translation Means Life or Death
"Boston Calling," a program on BBC World Service, recently aired an episode ("Humanitarian Instinct") which highlighted the dangers of unaddressed language barriers and the effort by Translators without Borders to break those barriers down. Listen to this 9-minute segment to hear more.
The Amazing Brains of Real-Time Interpreters
This article from BBC explores the great feat that is simultaneous interpreting and the incredible minds of those real-time interpreters.
Oops! Right Word, Wrong Language!
Asda, a British-based supermarket chain, mistakenly used Scottish Gaelic for their parking signs at a store in Wales. The problem? Scottish Gaelic is spoken in Scotland. They should have been using Welsh! Thankfully, a shopper spotted the mistake, and Asda is correcting it!
Choice Translating Recognized as One of the Charlotte Region's "Best Places to Work"
Every year, the Charlotte Business Journal releases its "Best Places to Work" list for the Charlotte region. And Choice Translating is on that list!
That's right! Choice Translating has been recognized as having benefits, policies, and practices in place that are among the area's best, with scoring based on employee surveys!
We Are a ROWE™ Certified Organization
Choice Translating is a ROWE™ Certified Organization. As a ROWE™ Certified Organization, we adhere to the following ROWE™ standards:
- Every meeting is optional. Being accountable for delivering results is not.
- People are where they need to be, when they need to be there based on agreed-upon results and measures. Managers address performance issues, not attendance and tardiness issues.
- Core hours or schedules are not dictated by managers.
- Vacation/time off is unlimited as long as results are achieved.
- Every person is 100% autonomous and is expected to make the right decisions about how, when and where work will happen in order to achieve results.
- Every person is 100% accountable to clear, measurable results.
- There are no flextime, telecommuting, or other 1990s flexibility policies in place.
- There is no judgment about how you spend your time. People know what Sludge is and they actively use the established eradication strategies to keep it out of the workforce.
- ROWE™ is not a program; when business gets tough ROWE™ is not something that is taken away. The focus is always on clear, measurable expectations and managing performance.
- Efficiency is rewarded with control over time (autonomy), not punished with piling on more work.
- Non-performance is swiftly addressed. Continued non-performance means termination of employment.
- Performance management and performance conversations are ongoing and not relegated to a quarterly, bi-annual or annual review process.
- People never talk about how many hours they work.
To find out more about ROWE™, click here
San Antonio Spurs Use Language Barriers to Their Advantage
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Obamacare's Poor Spanish Translation is Hurting the Health Law
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