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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.

By Flavia Krause-Jackson, Feb 23, 2017 Most of us grew up thinking there were boys and girls, and who was which was determined by the sex organs a person was born with. The transgender rights movement challenges that. Its advocates say how a person feels determines whether that individual is male, female, both or neither.…

by MARIA ELENA CATAJAN DISCRIMINATION, Feb 22, 2017 Discrimination in Baguio City will now be criminalized. During Monday’s regular session, the five year old ordinance penned by Vice Mayor Edison Bilog was approved on third and final reading and is awaiting the approval of the chief executive.

By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), Feb 22, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has come up with a new medium-term economic blueprint for the country, targeting an upper-middle class economy status with a per capita income of $5,000 by 2022.

Despite intelligent machines’ limitations, they will continue to play a bigger role in health care. by Spencer Nam, Jan 11, 2017 This new trade agreement will add $1 trillion to the world economy by Alex Gray 22 Feb 2017 Too hot, too cold. What porridge can tell us about women in science Although intelligent machines…

By: InterAksyon.com, Feb 22, 2017 In a decision that marked victory for Filipino seafarers who worked for inland shipping in the Netherlands, a Rotterdam court ruled that officers of the employment agency Gyron Crew are guilty of human smuggling and fraud.

Feb 22, 2017 Read the article here http://www.jbsolis.com/2017/02/how-much-will-your-sss-pension-based-on-your-contributions.html#ixzz4ZTLB6OxF

By: Gabriel Cardinoza, Inquirer Northern Luzon, Feb 22, 2017 LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Four workers were hurt when an old bridge being demolished here collapsed on Tuesday (Feb. 21).

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by Erika Fry, Fortune.com, Feb 21, 2017 On the campaign trail, Donald Trump donned a miner’s hat and promised to bring coal jobs back. “Get ready,” he told the embattled industry, “you’re going to work your asses off!” Those pledges helped win over voters in the nation’s Rustbelt, but they ignore America’s new energy reality:…

by Manisha Lath Gupta, Feb 21, 2017 A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to speak to the women employees at a leading telco, as a part of their woman empowerment & leadership program. It was fun engaging with young women professionals who are making a difference at work. I shared stories from the…

by Abby Jackson, Feb 21, 2017 This new trade agreement will add $1 trillion to the world economy Self-driving cars threaten the job security of millions of American truck drivers. At banks, automated tellers are increasingly common. And at wealth management firms, robo -advisers are replacing humans.

by PHILIP PERRY, Feb 21, 2017 Like any other system, capitalism has its positive and negative qualities. Inarguably, it has lifted nearly a billion across the globe out of extreme poverty, between 1990 and 2010. But as with other socioeconomic systems of the past, such as with feudalism, a time can come when revolutionary changes…

By A­rmida Rico, Abante, Feb 21, 2017 Isang Pinay worker ang matagumpay na nasagip sa tiyak na kapahamakan mula sa kamay ng kanyang employer sa Jordan dahil sa pagtutulungan ng media, ng isang non-governmental organization (NGO) at ng labor attaché ng nasabing bansa.

by ALICE E.M. UNDERWOOD, Feb 16, 2017 Get out the pruning shears: a big part of good writing is good editing. And a surefire way to give your writing a confidence boost is to eliminate words that weigh down your writing and make you sound uncertain.

July 26, 2016 What is a contraction? A contraction is a shortened form of a word (or group of words) that omits certain letters or sounds. In most contractions, an apostrophe represents the missing letters. The most common contractions are made up of verbs, auxiliaries, or modals attached to other words: He would=He’d. I have=I’ve.…

The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn’t just restrictive, it’s often just plain wrong. BY MISTY ADONIOU, Feb 21, 2017 Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with “And” or “But”? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we’ve…

by Abe Olandres, Feb 21, 2017 In an early access provided to us by OpenSignal, the latest report (February 2017) on global mobile internet speeds placed the Philippines at 3.33Mbps. This is higher than the 3.13Mbps reported by OpenSignal back in August 2016.

By Susie Bugante, Businessmirror, Feb 21, 2017 Members of the Social Security System (SSS) often wonder how their retirement pensions are computed. Today’s column will attempt to explain how the basic pension is arrived at following the provision of Section 12 of the SSS Act of 1997.

BY MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO, Manila Times, Feb 20, 2017 Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said reforms in the uniformed personnel’s pension system are part of the priority bills that will be pushed by the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (Ledac). “The Ledac agreed that there should be a review of the pension system for uniformed personnel,” he…

Fertility apps help with both Women have found a novel use for fertility apps: turning them into a new form of birth control. Media for Medical, UIG via Getty Images by Katie Collins, Feb 20, 2017 Recording basal body temperature at the same time every day is a key part of the fertility awareness method.

By Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star), Feb 20, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – To ensure the welfare of all Filipino household workers, Interior and Local Government Secretary Ismael Sueno urged mayors to require their constituents to register all their helpers and for barangay chairmen to implement kasambahay (domestic helper) registration in their localities.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks governments should impose something akin to an income tax on each robot that replaces a human. By Liam Tung, Feb 20, 2017 Bill Gates: “Taxation is certainly a better way to handle it than just banning some elements of it.” Robots should be taxed at the same level as the…

‘KUNWARI NAGAWA PERO WALANG NANGYARI’ Feb 20, 2017 Former President Fidel Ramos on Monday unleashed a new set of tirades against President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, which he said resorts to “tokenism” or only making a symbolic effort.