by Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan, Businessworld, Feb 27, 2017 THE BUDGET department sees more than a tenth of general civil servants will be affected by the proposed fat-trimming in government agencies within the first year of implementation. In its report to the Senate committee of civil service last week, the Department of Budget and Management…

by Danica M. Uy, Businessworld, Feb 27, 2017 THE GOVERNMENT’S representatives will be meeting with delegates from the European Union (EU) in September for the second round of free trade agreement (FTA) talks.

BY CRISPIN R. ARANDA, Manila Times, Feb 27, 2017 THE business process outsourcing industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. Call center agents speak fluent, neutral-accented English. BPO employees are paid less than their US counterparts. Dollar earnings rival that of remittances. Citizens of this country top the list of source countries for immigrants and visitors.

By: Maila Ager, INQINQUIRER.net, Feb 27, 2017 On Senator Manny Pacquiao’s motions, Liberal Party (LP) senators on Monday were stripped of their positions and committee chairmanships.

High-income earners shoulder only 28.4% of the tax burden, and it has a bigger gap between the taxes they owe government and the amount actually collected from them Rappler.com, Feb 27, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Low-income earners are bearing most of the country’s tax burden, according to data from the Department of Finance (DOF).

by Shelly Palmer, Feb 26, 2017 Oxford University researchers have estimated that 47 percent of U.S. jobs could be automated within the next two decades. But which white-collar jobs will robots take first?

By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), Feb 25, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Foreign investment pledges approved by the country’s seven investment promotion agencies (IPA) declined 10.7 percent to P219 billion in 2016 from P245.2 billion in 2015, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday.

By: Miguel R. Camus, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 24, 2017 The Philippines ranked near the bottom worldwide in a measure of mobile internet speed and availability, based on a crowdsourced survey. The results from United Kingdom-based OpenSignal, which claims to collect data from millions of smartphones worldwide, showed that the country’s “overall” mobile speed from…

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GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), Feb 24, 2017 Two years ago when a vacancy occurred in a Hong Kong firm’s board of directors, they appointed an algorithm. The robot called Vital gets no executive pay, and is fed only large amounts of data. In microseconds it picks up on market trends “not immediately…

by Raynan F. Javil, Feb 24, 2017 THE NUMBER of jobless Filipinos hardly changed last year from 2015, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey that bared a fourth-quarter reading that was the worst in two years. Fourth-quarter optimism about job prospects for the succeeding 12 months, however, was at its peak since this…

Brand strategist purportedly worked overtime with pneumonia By Patrick Coffee|February 23, 2017 A young brand strategist with Ogilvy & Mather Philippines died last weekend after purportedly working overtime while suffering from pneumonia.

Want to attain productivity nirvana? Then you need a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort, according to Paul J. Meyer. Here are 17 smart habits to adopt that will help you be your most productive self every day.

By Rossel C­alderon, Abante, Feb 23, 2017 Patay ang pahinante ng Isuzu aluminum wing van (DXY 567), makaraang magulungan ng mismong sasakyan na katatapos lamang nitong kumpunihin sa Brgy. San Miguel Sto. Tomas, Batangas, dakong alas-nuwebe ng gabi kamakalawa.

By Roderick Abad, Businessmirror, Feb 23, 2017 EMPLOYEES are not too overwhelmed by the bonus they get from their companies as the employees perceive it to be very rewarding, JobStreet.com said. As per the Bonuses Report 2017 of the jobs portal, only 51 percent of employees believe that the guaranteed bonuses they receive are on…

By Joseph Williams, Feb 23, 2017 How long do you think it will be until virtually all tier 1 call center agents are replaced by AI bots? I addressed this a bit in my Machine Learning session at last year’s Business Communications Summit.

by Ron Carucci, https://hbr.org/2016/10/make-strategic-thinking-part-of-your-job?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Oct 26, 2016 It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” And yet when I ask my executive clients, “If I cleared your calendar for an entire day to free you…

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 23, 2017 Some multinational companies are postponing their expansion plans in the country due to the political uncertainty threatening their businesses, according to an official of a group representing European investors.

By: Conrado Banal – @inquirerdotnet, Feb 23, 2017 This is a tough one: At this very moment we are staring at another awful increase in electricity rates of at least 16 centavos per kwh. It comes in a special package called FIT (feed in tariff), the subsidy the government applies on power projects called REs…

(The Philippine Star), Feb 23, 2017 Security Bank Corp. president and CEO Alfonso Salcedo Jr. said it has partnered with Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Finance Group Inc. (MUFG) to arrange close to 200 meetings between the banks’ Japanese, Philippine and Southeast Asian corporate clients during yesterday’s Business Matching Fair. File photo MANILA, Philippines – Japanese and…

By Fathin Ungku and Jeremy Wagstaff, Feb 23, 2017 Singapore, a keen early adopter of the sharing economy, has fired a warning shot across the bow of Airbnb and Uber with tighter rules that could shake up their business models and growth ambitions in Asia.