Reader Karl Decena emailed me last Sunday, and asked, ever so politely, if I “would consider writing” on a topic of great concern to him: the Fiscal Incentives Review Board’s (FIRB) recent
decision to deny a request to extend the work-from-home arrangements of BPO workers in economic zones to September. Reader Decena is a BPO worker and has been working from home since the pandemic began.
Here’s what the FIRB chair was quoted as saying: “The WFH arrangement is only a time-bound temporary measure adopted during the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the increasing vaccination rate of Filipinos nationwide, we can now undertake safe measures for physical reporting of employees, including those working in the IT-BPM firms operating within ecozones and freeports.
And why are they doing this? Well, it has become apparent that WFH, which has been practiced even before the pandemic, brings in much greater benefits than the costs that they incur. Both employees and employers are in agreement about this ? From the employer’s perspective, “the pros of having employees work from home include increased employee satisfaction, which leads to higher employee retention, the ability to hire from a larger pool of talent as opposed to the physical location of the office, increased employee productivity, and lower costs, in regards to rent, operations, and equipment.
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