Years ago, many members of the translation community thought and were (almost) convinced that machine translation was a prank.

Today, they realize that the quantity of contents to be translated is constantly increasing. The demand for "publishable" translations can exceed human capacity.

Many people in the community of human translation believe that machine translation is not "good enough" to meet today's challenges and that it contains more and more errors. Some fields, such as literature or poetic works, are still struggling to find their place in all of this.

However, machine translation has made a leap forward in recent years, particularly for technical fields.

Several years ago, futurist Ray Kurz Weil predicted that machine translation will reach the quality levels of human translation by 2029.

In your opinion, can human translation disappear for good in the coming years, in favor of machine translation?  

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) represents the awareness of sustainable development of a company in its activities. It consists of integrating environmental and social concerns into the management strategy and operational activities of the company. CSR also means including these famous concerns with stakeholders (customers, suppliers, etc.).

As all my employees work remotely, I wondered if remote working could be integrated into a CSR strategy?

YES, remote working can be part of a corporate social responsibility approach.

Why?

💥 It offers a source of well-being thanks to the autonomy provided to employees

💥 It reduces certain psychosocial risks such as fatigue and stress

💥 It allows you to better balance your professional and personal life

💥 It decreases the ecological impact, as employees don’t have to commute anymore

Of course, there are risks associated with remote working that CSR must address. This approach must also promote the opportunities of this operating mode.

We must not forget that when a member of a company encounters a difficulty, regardless of its nature, we must COMMUNICATE. There will always be solutions to solve these problems, but to do so, you have to dare.

At Keytrad, Panda, our project management tool, has been in place for 1-1/2 years now.

With Panda, you no longer need to juggle emails and Excel spreadsheets. All the data necessary for project management is centralized to allow you to gain in efficiency. 

In just a few clicks, the project manager assigns a project to one or more translators/proofreaders and determines the role of each one. As a result, a different interface is applied depending on these roles.   

You will find an interface for the project manager, one for the translator and one for managing/accounting. 

Thanks to Panda, the project manager can download and publish files for translators/proofreaders. There is also a private note area (client log, etc.). 

You can also benefit from a chat that is directly linked to the people involved in the project. This will facilitate all your communications :)