Dec

17

Still thinking of valid reasons to outsource your business processes and staff services to the Philippines? Here’s why businesses and organizations have a positive outlook on sending work to the Philippines.

1. The Philippines is strategically located in the fastest-growing, recovering region (Asia) in the world.

China is poised to overtake the United States as  the world’s biggest economy.

China and the Philippines have strong cultural and economical ties, even before there was a United States.

2. For investors, political instability in the country is no longer an issue.

There is a renewed trust in the new administration, under President Benigno Aquino III.

For many, the country is entering its Camelot years.

3. Business process outsourcing (BPO) firms enjoy income-tax holidays from four to eight years.

Infotech parks and economic zones provide tax and duty exemptions on imported capital equipment. These mean that sending work and equipment to BPO firms in the Philippines is more cheap, more cost-effective than sending it to anywhere else.

4.  Not only do Filipino workers have strong educational background, they have exceptional work ethics.

There hasn’t been a case of mass-wide information leaks or identity theft in the country.

The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and its related governing bodies will do everything to make sure that the BPO industry in the Philippines will remain safe, secure, stable, ensuring trust in every transaction.

Dec

16

Japan’s economy shows recovery through its remarkable growth performance, buoyed by private consumption.

This rise in consumer spending was due to the surge in demand for eco-friendly cars and cigarettes in anticipation of the imminent expiration of government subsidies for cars and the rise of tobacco prices.

Because of this positive development of the world’s third largest economy and to prevent a potential double-dip recession, Japanese economists prod their government to continue to assume an easy fiscal and monetary policy stance.

This economic improvement bodes well for the Philippines.

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Dec

15

As Cebu City, Philippines is lauded as an emerged destination for quality business process outsourcing services and staff, it is imperative that the urban center should protect its “professional image” by addressing issues on environment, waste management and control.

On this regard, local government units are taking steps to the beautification and propagation of information on proper care, disposal and segregation of litter and garbage.

Last Saturday, December 12, The 21st Coastal Clean Up and 17th Urban Clean Up were launched by the Cebu Coastline and Management Board (CCMB) and City River Management Council.

Thirty-six urban barangays and sixteen coastal barangays have taken part in these activities aimed to disseminate information on the proper segregation of garbage wastes.

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Dec

13

Chris Malazarte of the Freeman’s Trade Forum writes on how attrition remains high in the Philippines’ BPO industry due to the physical stress that a BPO worker, particularly one who works at a call/ voice contact center, experiences in the line of work.

Employees are only humans, not machines, and have physical limitations and a personal life often overlooked by employers and cannot be solved by healthcare or health insurance.

By encouraging companies to design the appropriate health programs for their employees can increase performance productivity as well as reduce attrition, know more on how a group of medical practicioners, occupational and safety experts in Cebu are inviting BPO firms to look at the anatomy of health concerns that a BPO worker could endure.

Read the article here.

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