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With the Philippines being the 39th largest economy in the world, the country continues to be a promising prospect for the BPO Industry. In August 2014, the Philippines hit an all-time high for employment in the BPO industry. From 101,000 workers in 2004, the labor force in the industry grew to over 930,000 in just the first quarter of 2014. [7]
A virtual assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) [ 1] is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office. [ 2] Because virtual assistants are independent contractors rather than employees, clients are not ...
Overseas Filipino Worker ( OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [ 3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020. Of these, female workers comprised a larger portion, making up ...
GoodWork, a Philippines-based booking platform for home services, has raised a $1.6 million seed round it will use to expand into new Southeast Asian markets.. The funding was led by Chaac ...
On the other hand, being a gig worker can have its own issues. Work consistently enough for a single company, and you will start to wonder why you too shouldn’t be afforded the benefits of more ...
Before raising, Packworks bootstrapped its way to working with 150,000 sari-sari stores, the company says. It was founded in 2018, with an initial client base of five sari-sari store partners ...
According to a Gallup poll in September 2021, 45% of full-time U.S. employees worked from home, including 25% who worked from home all of the time and 20% who worked from home part of the time. 91% of those who work remotely (fully or partially) hoped to continue to do so after the pandemic. Among all workers, 54% believed that their company's ...
Endo (derived from "end-of-contract") [1] refers to a short-term employment practice in the Philippines.It is a form of contractualization which involves companies giving workers temporary employment that lasts them less than six months and then terminating their employment just short of being regularized in order to skirt on the fees which come with regularization.