It is not uncommon that a company hires a bilingual employee to deal with translation tasks while doing international business or communicating internally with employees from other countries. This practice surely has its advantages, such as confidentiality, good knowledge of the business, and availability. For daily communications, this might be a good solution. However, if there are formal documents that need to be translated, such as legal documents, user’s manual, material safety data sheet(MSDS) and so on, you will want to hire a professional translator or a translation company to do the job in that a professional translator or a translation company has the necessary translation related resources, knowledge, skills and experience to deliver high-quality translation that will actually save your company money comparing with using an inexperienced bilingual employee.