If you believe the study by the translation provider DeepL, Germany is one of the European countries that are coming under the greatest pressure from language barriers when it comes to global expansion. Anyone who still works with manual translations as a human resources manager runs the risk of more than just misunderstandings. DeepL concludes that he risks losing talent, collaborations and market opportunities to competitors who have long since solved the problem technologically. A survey by HR-Works among small and medium-sized companies in Germany supports the thesis: 74 percent of those surveyed see a lack of language skills as an obstacle, and in 38 percent of the companies surveyed, employees do not even speak English.
This is where new AI-supported language tools come into play, which can fundamentally change human resources.
