by the LKTeam | 10th October 2024 | LKT, Team
On World Mental Health Day (10 October), this year’s focus is mental health in the workplace. In this post, Louise reflects on what LK Translations does to safeguard its team’s mental well-being. Recent statistics speak for themselves: 875,000 workers were...
by the LKTeam | 15th August 2024 | LKT, Team, Translation
What exactly is a single-language vendor in the world of translation? A single-language vendor, or SLV, focuses specifically on translations in one language pair. In LKT’s case, as a single-language vendor we translate exclusively from German into English. We made the...
by the LKTeam | 20th September 2021 | Celebration, LKT, Team
This week marks 15 years since Siobhan Gorrie joined the team at LKT. It’s impossible to overstate Siobhan’s value to LKT. Having joined us as a trainee on completion of her MA, she is our longest serving in‑house employee. Sadly often mistakenly confused with lack of...
by the LKTeam | 3rd February 2021 | LKT, Team, Training
On this website and in published articles, we’ve talked extensively about our unique Translator Academy model and how we use it to transform our new recruits into fully fledged translators who are able to handle every aspect of a translation project independently....
by the LKTeam | 19th October 2020 | Language, Team, Trilingualism
When I first sat down to make a few notes for this blog post, I checked the date of my last post and almost fell off my chair in disbelief. 14 months! How in the world did that happen? Where did that year go? OK, let’s not delve into that particular powder keg –...
by the LKTeam | 28th September 2020 | LKT, Team, Training
We recently returned to our office building in Middleton after almost six months of working from home.* An appropriate time to reflect, maybe, not only on events of the past months but also on how our team setup pre-COVID equipped us – for better or for worse – to...
