ABSTRACT
In Europe, and the West in general, most translators work freelance. There are also in-house translators (often referred to as ‘staff translators’) working in the international organisations that comprise the European Union and the United Nations, in central and local government bodies (for example, in the UK at the Home Office or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), in the media (for example, the BBC press monitoring facility), and in various private companies (for example, in audiovisual translation and the computer games industry) in addition to multinationals (for example, eBay/PayPal).
