OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The Lobien Realty Group (LRG), one of the country’s foremost real estate consultancy and property investments firm, says office demand will be in the upswing this second half of 2022. In fact, according to LRG, leased office space has already doubled from 8% in Q2 of 2021...
The Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) welcomed the decision of Concentrix, a major business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, to give up its tax perks in exchange for a continued hybrid work setup for its employees. Finance Assistant Secretary and FIRB Secretariat Juvy Danofrata said...
Business process outsourcing company Acquire BPO has donated Moderna vaccines to Quezon City to beef up the local government’s inoculation program. In a statement, Scott Stavretis, Acquire BPO chief executive officer, said they partnered with the Quezon City local government for the...
In twenty relatively short years, the rise and meteoric growth of BPO in the Philippines has been nothing short of astonishing. In that time, the Philippines has become the world’s top call center outsourcing hub, and the country currently ranks just behind India as the world’s second-largest...
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur -- A Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company has offered hundreds of job opportunities for residents in Northern Luzon following the opening last week its first connection hub in the country at the extension building of the Stern Mall here. Bong M. Borja, president of the...
The Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) is not bowing down to pressure as the interagency body stood firm on its decision that the work-from-home (WFH) setup for registered information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) firms was only temporary. In a statement on Thursday, April 28,...
More than two years into the pandemic, organizations in the Philippines are now slowly going back to their offices. With Metro Manila and most parts of the country now on Alert Level 1 the most lenient restrictions set by the authorities amid the current health crisis, companies are starting to...
"Work-from-home" or WFH is a term that gained popularity due to sheer necessity during the Covid-19 pandemic. But a former congressman in the current 18th Congress thinks that the proper term should be "work from anywhere" or WFA. (Simon Hattinga Verschure/ Unsplash) “Let us stop living in the...
The time is ripe for the Philippines to be on the map of the highly profitable knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) industry, House Deputy Speaker and former three-term senator Loren Legarda said. House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda Legarda pointed to the high competence and skills of Filipinos in...
Senatorial aspirant Jinggoy Estrada on Saturday, March 26 appealed to the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) to extend the hybrid work set-up of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies. Estrada said an extension of at least six months would be sufficient for BPO companies and their...
House Social Services Committee chair Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas is pushing for the adoption of work-from-home (WFH) setups amid the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the fuel crisis. House Social Services Committee chair Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas (Photo from Alfred Vargas FB page)...
Partido Reporma standard bearer Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said he is supportive of the four-day work week schedule being proposed to help employees save on their transportation costs to and from their workplaces as the country reels from the impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflict to the...
