IT award opens more doors for Bacolod

The sun will not be setting anytime soon on this sunshine industry. The Philippines has already become the world leader in business process outsourcing (BPO) and the industry still continues to grow, according to Jose Mari Mercado, president and ...

It appears to be a paradox. The Philippine economy is growing, but so are the unemployed. Social Weather Stations (SWS) data shows an increase in the number of unemployed in the country by 1 million between December 2012 to March 2013, a mere four ...

The Labor Department on Saturday expressed alarm over the rising cases of HIV and AIDS among Filipino workers. The number of HIV and AIDS cases is continually rising with 380 new cases recorded in January of this year, 79 percent higher than that of ...

This week, the Business Process Outsourcing community kicked off the first days of May with a flurry of news. Let's examine some of the new products and initiatives that bloomed in BPO this week. NEC Corporation of America and Desktone, Inc., have ...

The growth of the Philippines as the hub of business process outsourcing (BPO) over the past couple of years has been astonishing. While the rest of the industries declined during the recession, the call center business remained resilient thanks to ...

For possible overseas as well as local employment, the demand is highest for machine operators at 1,002 vacancies, followed by steelmen at 910, domestic helpers, production and factory workers, heavy truck drivers, private housekeepers and welders.

Legazpi City, a component city and capital of the province of Albay in the Philippines, is stepping up its efforts to power to the country's business process outsourcing (BPO) at the height of shortage in talent plaguing the industry. The city's ...

The recent upgrade by Fitch Ratings of the country's sovereign credit rating to BBB- from BB+ would boost the demand for office and manufacturing spaces, according to CBRE Philippines. CBRE said the Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) and Subic Bay Freeport ...

In the October 2010 Annual Report of IBM Global Business Services, the Philippines, with its business environment (for international business support functions) similarly attractive to those of India, overtakes the latter in the fields of shared ...