sunday business

Credit to Author: Anna Leah E. Gonzales| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:15:37 +0000

THE Producer Price Index (PPI) for manufacturing rose at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in November from -0.8 percent in October and 0.4 percent in the same month last year, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). In a report, the statistics agency attributed the growth to increases recorded by the major industry groups, […]

Credit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:14:29 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C.: What are the skills that employers most value in freelancers? They want workers fluent in the computer programming language TypeScript and the software framework .NET Core. But they also favor softer skills, like good grammar and efficient bookkeeping. That’s according to a list of the top 100 skills sought in freelance workers, compiled […]

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:18:53 +0000

I want to keep moving and try other things. To be part of a technology that will change the landscape of digital automation and bring business efficiency to a higher level. I want to be part of the discovery.” “It all started with sheer curiosity.” That’s how Tisha Gay Corros, chief operating officer of solutions […]

Credit to Author: Leah C. Salterio| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:19:17 +0000

“Banking is the most technical field for a finance person. You need to have a strong grasp of finance [matters] to actually do banking well. It’s very different from any other industry.” For Hazli Abu Samah, chief financial officer of Maybank Philippines, entering the banking world proved to be a seamless affair. His previous job […]

Credit to Author: YUGEL LOSORATA| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:15:37 +0000

THE notion that office spaces are no longer necessary because people can now work from home or in coffee shops may be a myth, as various studies show that demand for them continues to rise into the next decade, fueled in great part by business process outsourcing and offshore gaming firms. This was what Prime […]

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:13:35 +0000

MOST parents in the United States provide some sort of financial support to their adult children, multiple surveys have found. But often, financial aid goes the other way. A 2015 survey by TD Ameritrade found that 13 percent of American adults provided financial support to a parent. Millennials were far more likely than older generations […]

Credit to Author: Maan D’Asis Pamaran| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 16:18:27 +0000

Cerqueda has always known his father Miguel was unlike other kids’ dads “who would say goodbye and leave for work.” Miguel Cerqueda, who worked at The Manila Hotel from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, becoming resident manager and finally general manager, is a byword in the Philippine hospitality industry. He met Miguel’s mother Christine […]

Credit to Author: Tyrone Jasper C. Piad| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 16:15:52 +0000

DEMAND for condominiums and co-living facilities is on the rise as more employees are choosing to live near business districts amid worsening traffic in Metro Manila, according to a real estate consultancy company. In a recent briefing in Makati City, Colliers International Senior Researcher Joey Roi Bondoc said results of his firm’s survey showed that […]

Credit to Author: LOUISE NICHOLE LOGARTA| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:13:14 +0000

Space is essential to our lives, one that we sometimes take for granted. It’s what we call home, school or the workplace. It is where we eat, sleep, recharge or retreat to from an increasingly intrusive world. No one seems to understand that better than interior designer Marie Eleanor “Malen” Gomez-Garcia, creative director of Idea/Forma […]