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“With our soft skills development program, we hope to empower more women and effect change to men and how they perceive women in the workplace. Ultimately, this program aims to build the capacity of both women and men, so that they may harmoniously and effectively work with each other,” Ms. Diana Pardo-Aguilar, ECOP Vice President and Chair of the recently launched ECOP Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee, said as she delivered her opening remarks during the “21st Century Workplace: Leadership Skills for the Workforce” online forum conducted recently via Zoom.

Breaking glass ceilings is the goal of many women, especially those who wish to become financially self-reliant in order to support their families, particularly those from the lower income segments of society. But the reality is that life for them is hardly easy. With myriad challenges and hindrances that stand as stumbling blocks to their growth and success such as unconscious gender biases, lack of access to needed seed capital, or even basic entrepreneurial skills and the necessary know-how to properly start and run a thriving business, concrete measures that address these need to be done.

A growing population of millennials are gradually transitioning from their usual lifestyle choices to taking on new responsibilities, as they seek new challenges at work and navigate their way through a rapidly changing environment.

Imagine having the capability to know where your mobile data goes and being able to control how it is consumed. Globe fully understands that this is what customers need and responds by introducing Data Manager, a feature that empowers customers to track and control their data usage.

Managing any property or development is challenging, but the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made it next to impossible without the help of technology. 

In the recently concluded Digital Week: Southeast Asia organized by W. Media, Schneider Electric presented the research highlighting the accelerated growth trend of edge computing in the Philippines.

Cherry Home is one with you in levelling up the protection in your household as it brings you the Total Protect Duo Promo which will run until April 30, 2021.

Until April 18, 2021, postpaid subscribers can claim their free COVID-19 and Dengue Insurance for three months powered by GInsure and Singlife with coverage of up to P140,500.

Globe assures its customers that it will continuously deliver service support and #ExtraCareAtHome covering Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Rizal and Laguna.

Set against every possible criterion, overseeing the long-term vision of a beverage giant whose footprint spans the entire country is a career-defining accomplishment. For Andrea Cheng—Strategic Planning Director of Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc.,the youngest member of its senior leadership team—the sprawling scope of her work is just par for the course; handling the strategic solutions for a company that serves millions of Filipinos just a-day-in-the-life.

Continuously mitigating credit risk and fraud in operational processes and systems has become a prevailing problem for the financial sector. As businesses deal with the aftermath of the lockdown, lenders may expect a surge in working capital loan requests from entrepreneurs hoping to recover from these trying times.

If there was one phone call that changed Richard Christopher Bornea’s life, it would be the one he received from Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), telling the 19-year old Biology major he just won P100,000 in the telco’s Balik Tuition Program. 

Mister Donut continues to innovate its business model to help ensure its franchisees are optimizing the profitability of their stores even in this time of pandemic.

Globe is set to issue quick response (QR)-code identification cards to all its legitimate site acquisition, site management and right of way agents employed by its accredited partners/vendors. The initiative aims to protect its contractors and lessors from fraud.

March is International Women’s Month. PLDT celebrates and recognizes women across industries who pivoted respectively on their chosen paths. This is a special feature, in partnership with, PLDT Home. We are featuring the woman behind the brand that embraces environmental challenges with such wit and grace, Krie Reyes – Lopez, CEO of Messy Bessy. 

In a bid to better address the 6.75-million housing backlog in the country, A Better Real Estate Philippines (ABREP), in partnership with key developers, provided more than 2,000 new real estate salespersons with free Brokerage Training Programs for them to earn credit units necessary for accreditation with the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Now that Filipinos rely on the internet more than ever in this prolonged period of work-from-home and distance learning, it pays to keep the home connected— and to know what to do when it isn’t. To prepare every subscriber for this new online normal, Globe is launching #WifiSolutions, a new online hub for getting the most out of a Globe At Home subscription, via glbe.co/wifisolutions.

Even now in the age of digital lifestyle and technology, for most Filipinas, the phrase ‘Kababae mong tao…’ is a statement that they have probably heard at least once in their lives. It’s a seemingly harmless remark that aims to put them in their place, a reprimand that tells them what they should and should not do. And while society has over time become more progressive, we still have a long way to go in addressing this deeply-ingrained and unconscious discrimination – one that inhibits women from realizing their full potential.