Monthly Archives: June 2017

by Skip Chilcott | Jun 18, 2017 Today’s contact center agents must be able to communicate with customers not only on the phone but via social media, instant messaging, video conferencing and web chat. How can humans do it all? Increasingly, they can’t.

Philippine economic reality By BusinessMirror Editorial, Jun 18, 2017 The Philippines faces many problems. Some are critical, like the Marawi rebellion; others are merely annoying, like the fact that when school starts, so does the rainy season. However, overall, the Philippines does not have economic problems despite Filipinos being told constantly that we do.

by Therese Reyes, Jun 18, 2017 At age 12, Fidelina Geraldez, now 49, was already working at her uncle’s store, poultry farm, and piggery. She said working for relatives is common in her hometown of Cebu, a province in Visayas island. Utang na loob—or “debt of gratitude”—is a value that runs deep in Philippine society.…

By Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat, Manila Bulletin, Jun 17, 2017 Majority or 89 percent of employees in the BPO/call center sector in the Philippines are at high risk from robotic process automation, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Job interviews probably aren’t comfortable for anyone, but they don’t have to be miserable. Here are some ways to make your next one easier. By Mary Shacklett | June 16, 2017 Job interviews can be nerve wracking for both interviewees and interviewers. Because you’re naturally nervous, you are likely to not be as on top…

by Charlotte Edmond, Jun 16, 2017 Tech companies from Google to Apple may be ploughing resources into driverless cars, but on our oceans, automated ships could be making bigger waves by the end of the decade.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk sees artificial intelligence as the future. Professor Stephen Hawking thinks robots will one day destroy all human life. Who do you side with on the AI debate? By Eileen Brown for Social Business, Jun 16, 2017 With bot-to-bot communications becoming common across many industries, are we ready to fully accept robots…

By Regine Cabato, Jun 16, 2017 The road to safer cities for women is paved with lapses in laws and a whole lot of misogyny. Illustration by JL JAVIER Manila (CNN Philippines Life) — “Violence begins with language,” women’s rights advocate Senator Risa Hontiveros says at the Safe Cities Metro Manila Mayors Conference. She is…

by Lorenzo Fioramonti, Jun 16, 2017 The growth economy suffers from a productivity paradox. Corporations compete to reduce the time and effort that goes into production processes, which is generally seen as a sign of efficiency, but in reality has a troubling outcome.

Decline traced to Saudi repatriation, stronger US dollar By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 16, 2017 Cash sent home by Filipinos working and living abroad through banks fell to a 15-month low of $2.08 billion in April partly due to a stronger US dollar as well as a decline in remittances from…

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CNBC, Jun 15, 2017 Asian financial centres Singapore and Hong Kong will attract more wealth from within and outside the region in the coming years – a development that will help to propel Asia Pacific to become the world’s wealthiest region by 2019, a study by Boston Consulting Group showed.

by Business Insider Australia, Jun 15, 2017 A startup in South Korea is making headlines for only hiring staff that are aged 55 years and over. Channel NewsAsia reports the founder of content monitoring company EverYoung established the rule to prove the futility of age discrimination – a phenomenon that’s reportedly prevalent in modern Korean…

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Jun 15, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – About 250 million children worldwide live in areas affected by clashes and a majority of them are recruited to work as soldiers and spies, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported yesterday.

Twenty-five years ago, U.S. tech companies pledged to stop using chemicals that caused miscarriages and birth defects. They failed to ensure that their Asian suppliers did the same. by Cam Simpson,  Jun 15, 2017 Results in epidemiology often are equivocal, and money can cloud science (see: tobacco companies vs. cancer researchers). Clear-cut cases are rare.…

by Brad Keywell, Jun 14, 2017 The world is changing. There’s no way around this fact. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now. And, whether you know it or not, it will affect you.

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http://www.pinoyhealthguide.com/2016/08/this-soap-causes-breast-cancer-and.html?m=1&utm_content=bufferc3d1d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer We all have used antibacterial soaps at one time or the other, some of us probably used it this morning and some will still use it this evening.

BY HANNAH OSBORNE, 6/14/17, Newsweek An Artificial Electric Skin Could Heal Your Electronic Devices And Someday Your Body For most people, the idea of brain augmentation remains in the realms of science fiction. However, for scientists across the globe, it is fast becoming reality—with the possibility of humans with “super-intelligence” edging ever closer.

By: Ben O. de Vera , Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 14, 2017 Singapore’s biggest bank has warned that amid robust growth, the Philippine economy is at risk of overheating.

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News, Jun 14, 2017 MANILA – Children can work as long as this does not interfere with their education or recreation activities, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Wednesday.

by Laura Tyson, Jun 13, 2017 Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are powering a new wave of automation, with machines matching or outperforming humans in a fast-growing range of tasks, including some that require complex cognitive capabilities and advanced degrees. This process has outpaced the expectations of experts; not surprisingly, its possible adverse effects…

The term has two opposing meanings The Economist explains Jun 13th 2017 by M.S. EMMANUEL MACRON’S agenda for strengthening the European Union has revived talk of a “federal Europe”. The French president’s ambition will be easier to achieve without Britain: it has tended to follow the line of Margaret Thatcher, who in 1990 said the…

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By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Jun 13, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Economic Zone Authority is not closing its doors completely to online gambling firms wanting to locate in PEZA-accredited buildings and sites, agreeing to a compromise that will enforce much stricter rules for locators in accordance with President Duterte’s war against illegal…

By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 13, 2017 The net inflow of job-generating foreign direct investment (FDI) jumped by almost a third to $509 million in March on the back of sustained investor confidence nine months into the Duterte administration, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said Tuesday.

A minimum income for all? By: Cielito F. Habito, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 13, 2017 There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can’t afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business,” observed Facebook creator Mark…

Amicus Curiae and Kyna C. Pasamba, Businessworld, Jun 22,2017 With the advent of Department Order No. 174, Series of 2017, or the new rules implementing Articles 106 to 109 of the Labor Code, as amended, the question now lies on the applicability or non-applicability of the rules to different types of persons or entities in…

by Celeste Drake, Jun 12, 2017 The North American Free Trade Agreement is typically called a “trade deal,” but in reality it’s not much about trade. Its hundreds of pages of set rules for how the United States, Mexico and Canada can run their economies. Those rules give global corporations strong rights and privileges but…