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Sitel Group to buy Sykes in $2.15 billion deal

Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 08:28 PM

IT services company Sykes Enterprises Inc said on Friday it has agreed to be acquired by privately owned peer Sitel Group in a deal valued at $2.15 billion. Read more »

Higit 400 kawani ng call center company sa Davao City positibo sa COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 07 04:28 PM

Nagpositibo sa COVID-19 ang 403 na kawani ng isang call center company sa Davao City, ayon sa isang local health officer ngayong Lunes. Read more »

BPO industry revenues hit $26.7-B in 2020, up 1.4 percent: IBPAP

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 26 06:54 PM

The industry generated a total of $26.7 Billion in 2020, as BPO companies implemented flexible work arrangements to ensure continued operations amid the pandemic. Read more »

BPO firms secure 1 million COVID-19 vaccine shots

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 26 04:23 PM

Business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in the Philippines have secured some 1 million COVID-19 shots, an industry leader said on Wednesday.  Read more »

Quezon City gov't, BPO groups sign deal to 'expedite' inoculation of 67K employees

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 11:21 AM

Several Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) groups have signed a deal with the local government of Quezon City for the vaccination of over 67,000 workers in the industry, an industry group said Tuesday. Read more »

IATF OKs inclusion of BPO workers in A4 priority list for COVID-19 vaccination: trade chief

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 04:24 PM

The country's coronavirus task force on Friday approved the recommendation to include the Business Outsource Processing (BPO) sector to the A4 priority group for the government's COVID-19 vaccine deployment plan, the Trade Department said. Read more »

Athletes, LPG retailers move up in COVID-19 vaccination priority

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 21 12:55 PM

The inter-agency task force leading the country's COVID-19 response said on Friday that it moved up some athletes and workers involved in the retail of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the priority line for vaccination against the novel coronavirus.    Read more »

More businesses seen using chatbots and AI

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 19 02:20 PM

More and more businesses will be employing chatbots to keep their customers engaged as the enterprises speed up their digitalization. Artificial intelligence is also making chatbots even more powerful.  Read more »

Philippines lays out AI industry road map

Bruce Rodriguez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 05 07:37 PM

The Department of Trade and Industry on Wednesday launched the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap which aims to make the country a regional hub for AI-based solutions and data analytics. Read more »

India's IT companies scramble to handle COVID-19 surge

Sethuraman N R and Anirban Sen, Reuters
Posted at Apr 28 08:06 PM

India's giant IT firms in Bengaluru and other cities have set up COVID-19 "war-rooms" as they scramble to source oxygen, medicine and hospital beds for infected workers and maintain backroom operations for the world's biggest financial firms.   Read more »

DoubleDragon defies pandemic slump, sets launch of 3 new Hotel 101 this year

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 21 11:16 AM

DoubleDragon Properties Corp said Wednesday it would launch pre-selling activities in 3 new Hotel 101 projects this year, expecting at least P11.03 billion in sales revenue.   Read more »

Megaworld says office business 'most stable income generator' despite pandemic

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 14 11:17 AM

Megaworld Corp said Wednesday its office business "is the most stable" income generator after finalizing new office leases last year despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

As POGOs exit, e-commerce, BPOs buoy office space demand during pandemic: Leechiu

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 13 12:31 PM

The demand for office space by the Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs) and the e-commerce sector have grown in the first quarter despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.    Read more »

DOH, BPO partnership urged to boost country's COVID-19 hospital referral hotline

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 07 06:55 PM

Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday called on the Department of Health (DOH) to seek aid from the Philippines' top business process outsourcing (BPO) companies to boost the capacity of the government's centralized hospital referral hotline. Read more »

BPOs Teleperformance, Accenture to vaccinate employees vs COVID-19 for free

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 01 12:00 PM

Several Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms in the country have committed to vaccinate their employees against COVID-19 for free. Read more »

Happening this weekend: Employees of 8 BPOs in Mobile Legends showdown

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 05 04:08 PM

Employees from eight business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are set to compete in a two-day esports tournament this weekend.  Read more »

ALAMIN: Mga industriyang maraming vacancies kahit pandemya

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 26 09:31 PM

Base sa mga tala, mula Marso hanggang Oktubre 2020 ay dumami pa ang vacancies sa ilang industriya.  Read more »

‘Ginagawa kaming lab rats’: Grupo ng BPO, magsasaka tutol na unang turukan ng Sinovac

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 25 08:11 PM

Tutol ang grupo ng mga BPO workers at magsasaka na mauna silang turukan ng COVID-19 vaccine.  Read more »

BPOs seen hiring up to 100,000 this year; work-from-home also here to stay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 15 04:17 PM

The business process outsourcing industry will hire between 80,000 to 100,000 employees this year, sustaining the sector's yearly recruitment numbers, an industry group said on Monday.  Read more »

41 BPO employees nagpositibo sa COVID-19 sa Bacolod

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 06:28 PM

Isang gusali ng business process outsourcing company sa Bacolod City ang isinara ngayong Lunes matapos 41 na empleyado rito ang nagpositibo sa COVID-19. Read more »