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DTI says PEZA laws can be revised BPO hybrid work setup

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 03 01:30 PM

The next administration could opt to revise PEZA rules to allow BPOs to implement a hybrid work setup without losing their incentives, the DTI said. Read more »

BPO workers humiling ng dayalogo ukol sa hybrid work

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 30 01:44 PM

Humihingi ng dayalogo ang samahan ng mga call center worker para pag-usapan ang pagbabalik-opisina sa mga nasa BPO industry. Read more »

BPO workers nais ituloy ang hybrid, WFH set-up

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 26 07:14 PM

Humihingi ng paunawa ang call center o BPO workers at iba pang nagwo-work from home na bigyan sila ng konsiderasyon na ituloy ang nasabing set-up. Read more »

BPOs to lose tax perks with WFH scheme: Finance chief

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 22 08:55 PM

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said IT-BPM firms in ecozones and freeports can adopt work-from-home schemes but must give up their tax incentives. Read more »

Big business groups, firms back return-to-office policy

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 21 06:56 PM

Major business groups and companies backed the government’s move to get employees to return to their workplaces, even as BPOs appealed for an extension of work-from-home setups. Read more »

Family affair: Parents bring kids to BPOs for COVID jabs

Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 19 08:18 PM

Around 1.4 million children aged 5 to 11 and 9.7 million children aged 12 to 17 have gotten COVID-19 shots, the DOH said Friday. Read more »

BPOs seek more time for office return, eye hybrid work

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 18 11:58 AM

The IT-BPM sector needs more time so its employees can return to onsite work, a group said Friday as it sought a hybrid setup in the long run. Read more »

PH gov't wants BPO workers to return to offices by April 1

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 15 10:34 PM

Workers in the Philippine business outsourcing industry up in arms against a government order requiring them to return to on-site work next month. Read more »

BPO workers hit gov’t push for return to office in April

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 14 01:16 PM

A group of business process outsourcing (BPO) agency employees are opposing government’s move to disallow them from working from home starting April. Read more »

Optum backs hybrid work setups as govt nixes WFH

Art Fuentes, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 10 09:43 AM

Global BPO firm Optum said hybrid work setups should be allowed to continue as the government insisted that workers in the industry should return to their offices. Read more »

No extension of work-from-home for BPOs: Finance chief

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 09 02:45 PM

The government said it will allow remote work for the majority of IT-BPM enterprises in ecozones only until March 31. Read more »

For Robredo, BPOs should embrace work-from-home

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 28 07:12 PM

VP Leni Robredo on Monday said government should offer incentives that would encourage BPOs to keep work-from-home arrangements. Read more »

BPO industry seen growing up to 13 pct this year

Warren de Guzman, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 16 08:51 PM

The IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines said it expects the sector to once again outpace the Philippine economy this year. Read more »

ADB cites PH success in services-led development

Warren de Guzman, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 16 08:25 PM

A study by the ADB cited the Philippines as showing that the services sector can be as important as manufacturing in growing a country’s economy. Read more »

Innovation, technology seen to help Cebu BPO sector regain faster growth

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 05 01:01 PM

Cebu's business process outsourcing (BPO) sector will invest more in innovation and technology so that it can get back to faster growth after slowing down in recent years, an industry group said Monday.    Read more »

BPO industry eyes $29-billion revenue, more jobs by 2022

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 25 01:53 PM

The country's information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) sector in the country has the potential to grow its revenue to $29 billion and add some 160,000 more jobs by 2022 as it remained resilient despite the COVID-19 pandemic, an industry leader said Friday. Read more »

Certain areas of economy 'resilient' despite pandemic: Filinvest CEO

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 11 11:44 AM

Office leasing that caters to multinational Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs), as well as the residential property business, is seeing a V-shape recovery, Filinvest Development Corp President and CEO Josephine Gotianun-Yap told ANC. 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 »