Today's Guardian featured Carolyn Burgess (our chairman) talking about the effect of the economic downturn on the interpreting and translation industry.
On public sector cuts:
- "Things haven't fallen back yet, but I do see it coming"
- "This is a fantastic way to change how the public sector buys its services"
On resisting the temptation to cut rates of pay for linguists:
- "These are qualified linguists we are talking about often with specialisms such as in medicine or law ... As a business, without our linguists we are nothing"
On the private sector:
- "There's a big drive by people to do business in China, India, Brazil and Russia"
You can read the full article here.