Debbie Crosbie, chief executive of the Nationwide Building Society, has cautioned that women who regularly work from home could miss out on promotion opportunities due to lower in-person visibility. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Crosbie said that more women than men had opted for
Ah, Billy Joel. The piano man who once sang of an unstoppable blaze that’s been burning “since the world’s been turning.” Little did he know, decades later, we’d be taking frantic notes on how to handle the ever-growing conflagration. As we step cautiously into 2025, it
SIXELEVEN GLOBAL SERVICESBy Chloe Mari A. Hufana, ReporterTHE ADOPTION of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Philippines’ business process outsourcing (BPO) and business process management sectors is still in early stages as managements show reluctance to upskill workers, leaving them more vulnerable to job insecurity. This
PAIRS OF HIGH-QUALITY SHOES made in Marikina City are shown to members of the media during a tour of C Point Manufacturing’s shoe factory in Barangay Concepcion Uno on Aug. 7, 2019. — PHILIPPINE STAR / BOY SANTOSTHE PHILIPPINES is on the cusp of a
DAVID DVORACEK-UNSPLASHBy Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio,ReporterMANDATING BUSINESSES to adopt digital payment solutions for transactions could help promote financial inclusion and stoke economic activity as it could stimulate consumer spending, analysts said on Tuesday.“Mandating the adoption of digital payment services in government and merchant transactions has
PHILSTAR FILE PHOTOHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez should disclose the beneficiary list of a state financial aid program to open its implementation and impact to public scrutiny, a former Finance department official said on Wednesday.Ex-Finance Undersecretary Cielo D. Magno issued the challenge
A FIREWORK display can be seen from a building in Kalaw, Manila in celebration of the New Year. — PHILIPPINE STAR/WALTER BOLLOZOSPRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Wednesday urged Filipinos to adopt a growth-focused mindset as they welcomed a new year.He said the year 2025
IAN SCHNEIDER-UNSPLASHTHE PHILIPPINE Health department on Wednesday said it had recorded over 140 fireworks-related injuries after the New Year celebration, bringing the total cases during the holiday season to over 300.The number of cases from Dec. 22, 2024 to Jan. 1, 2025 declined by 34%
A person using a smartphone is seen in front of displayed social media logos in this illustration taken on May 25, 2021. — REUTERSTHE PHILIPPINES’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) should rigorously monitor social media platforms as the 2025 midterm election approaches to curb artificial intelligence
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMANARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is expected to further personalize Filipino students’ learning, which could help address the country’s worsening learning crisis, according to industry experts.Ryan Lufkin, vice-president of global academic strategy at Instructure, said that the ability of AI to provide a
STOCK PHOTO | Shooting gun photo created by senivpetro - www.freepik.comCOTABATO CITY — Two men armed with pistols were killed in a shootout with a policeman they approached and shot along a highway in Barangay Ayala in Zamboanga City on Tuesday.Officials of the Zamboanga City
COTABATO CITY — A villager was killed in a grenade explosion that ripped through a roadside carnival in Barangay Marbel in Matalam town in Cotabato at about midnight on Tuesday.Col. Gilbert B. Tuzon, Cotabato provincial police director, told reporters on Wednesday that the blast fatality,