We are ridiculously happy to announce that our business is now a certified B Corporation. What is B Corp? B Corp is an international movement that encourages companies to use business as a force for good and contribute to building a fairer and more inclusive economy. At its core, it’s all about moving away from
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Whether it’s the result of the pandemic or by personal choice, working from home has become the reality for many of us – especially over the course of the last few years. While this comes with a lot of perks, such as cutting out commuting times and having more flexible working hours, it presents challenges many
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If you’ve just completed your studies and are about to embark on a career in professional translation, you probably can’t wait to throw yourself into work and gain your first hands-on experience as a professional linguist. You might be glad to put an end to rifling through the endless pages of dry theory and translation
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Here at AJT, we all work fully remotely, so we don’t have one central physical office where we are all based. But that doesn’t stop us thinking about how we can improve our environmental footprint as a company. On the road to becoming a B Corp certified translation agency, we discovered that there were other
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We are immensely proud to announce that we have won our second ITI Corporate Award in four years, this time for ‘Our road to B Corp certification’. The ITI, or the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, to give it its full name, is the only UK-based independent professional membership association for practising translators and interpreters, with
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Early days My hometown has changed. In the first month of the war in Ukraine Warsaw’s population rose 17% and now day-to-day life is noticeably different: Ukrainian is being spoken on every corner, blue and yellow flags adorn many of the buildings, and there has been an outpouring of support for Ukraine from the people
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In January 2021, our company made a strategic business decision to go fully remote and 14 of us bade a fond farewell to our seaside office in Newquay, Cornwall. We’re now a team of 31 which means over half of us have only ever experienced AJT as a fully remote workplace. While everyone in the
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We’ve just completed our first annual client satisfaction survey. 37 of our active clients took part and they gave us an average rating, for our translation quality and customer service, of 9.4 out 10. We’re super happy with that result. Thank you to everyone who took part and provided us with feedback – it’s much
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We decided back in June that we would close our beloved seaside office in Cornwall and transition to a fully virtual office. It’s a decision we took with a heavy heart: after all, we love working together in an office and collaborating on projects in a physical space. But there is a silver lining: we
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