MANILA – Half-a-million Filipinos will work as call center agents this year, the Contact Center Association of the Philippines said on Tuesday.
Benedict Hernandez, CCAP president, said the call center industry’s workforce will hit 500,000 this year, adding that it is on track to meet its $8.4 billion revenue contribution to the Philippine economy for 2012.
The country’s gross domestic product grew by 6.1 percent in the first half of the year on the strength of consumer spending and the services sector, which includes the business process outsourcing industry.
Last year, the IT-BPO industry generated more than $11 billion in revenues and employed almost 640,000. According to its medium-term roadmap, the industry projects it would grow revenues to $25 billion and employ 1.3 million by 2016.
The call center segment alone expects to corner $14.7 billion of the BPO industry’s revenue, and 816,000 of the total jobs to be created by 2016. –Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
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Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
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Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
