BPOs remain top employer in the Philippines
The business process outsourcing (BPO) sector remains the top-employment sector in the Philippines, accounting for 38% of the country’s total workforce, according to data released by JobStreet.com. The study further revealed that the high salary in the country’s IT sector will continue to encourage and create a stronger industry workforce. Professionals in the IT sector remain the highest-paid employees in the country, JobStreet.com said. Lawyer Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, executive director of Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology said that every year there is an annual estimated two million unfilled positions in the IT sector worldwide. Batapa-Sigue was speaker at the 2017 Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines – Negros Island Region Regional Convention.
