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The Reunion Site has a message for translation/localization companies around the globe.
The Reunion Site is about understanding, and about everyone succeeding.
As a translation/localization company, you need to maximize profits and optimize spending.
The Reunion Site has been founded based on the feeback and needs of professional translators/localizers. Your company gives work to a large number of translation professionals in different countries -whenever possible, located in those countries that are target markets for your customers' products or services.
This actually means that the localization effort ultimately relies on hundreds, thousands of people who do their very best to provide you with their linguistic and cultural services.
But, can you afford to keep succeeding if you lower the rates of these resources?
Consider the facts.
When these dedicated, valuable, skilled individuals come to be underpaid, or else when the compensation they receive for their services does not allow them to keep up with the cost of living in their respective countries, many of them have to quit and pursue a different career. As so many of them quit their career, an inavaluable amount of experience and know-how is lost, and thus, your company might end up with defective, low quality translations. We're convinced that this will eventually mean that your customers will lose sales capacity/volume in many markets.
If that happens, what will happen to your company?
By caring for your resources, you're helping your own company.
Most of translation/localization companies are paying us in the range of US$0.06 - 0.09 per translated word. That's too little for any professional translator, regardless of their location.
We would like to be paid a minimum of US$0.10 - 0.12 per translated word. This is the rate we need to survive and keep serving you with dedication and professionalism. Otherwise, the quality of our work decreases in a direct proportion to lower rates. Consider as well the number of software applications, specialized courses, and other resources we have to keep purchasing on a regular basis. And the time needed for this. Plus the increases in the cost of living.
Now that you know the facts, it's up to you.
We will honor those translation/localization companies who are willing to get involved and address this problem together with their customers.
Please help us and help yourself provide your customers with the best services.
Thank you.