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German translation: Arbeitgeber

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English term or phrase:	company
German translation:	Arbeitgeber
Entered by:	Hildegard Klein-Bodenheimer

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17:10 Mar 19, 2008

English to German translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources

English term or phrase: company

I am proofreading and partially translating a survey for employees of a worldwide company. The employees are supposed to rate their team, their work unit, and in some questions the overall performance of the German division. They are answering or rating sentences like this:
*My company motivates me to contribute more than is normally required to complete my work.*
or
*My company inspires me to do my best work every day.*
The translator always used 'Unternehmen'. It sounds wrong to me. I would think that employees talk about their company as "Betrieb" or "Firma".
Can somebody help me clarify this?

Thank you.

Hildegard Klein-Bodenheimer KudoZ activity Questions: 70 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 273 United States
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Arbeitgeber

Explanation:
Hier würde ich von "Arbeitgeber" sprechen.

Definitiv würde ich nicht "mein Unternehmen" schreiben, genau genommen ist das falsch (daher eher noch "meine Firma", aber gemeint ist der ""Arbeitgeber"!

"Mein Unternehmen"? Schön wär's!

Selected response from:

anisco
Germany
Local time: 15:02

Grading comment

Am liebsten hätte ich die Punkte zwischen Arbeitgeber und Unternehmen aufgeteilt. Da Arbeitgeber aber häufiger passte, gehen die 4 Punkte an Aniello. Wie immer, vielen Dank für die Hilfe und die lebhafte Diskussion.
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