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The decade-high inflation rate in the Philippines at 11.4 percent may push Business Process Outsourcing workers ti turn to their employers of the job market to increase their pay to compensate for the rising cost of living , this is the prognosis presented by Canada-headquartered Information Technology research firm XMG. Despite of the global financial turmoil the local business process outsourcing or BPO market remain robust. However, it will face HR challenges, especially talent shortage and higher salary demand as the sector copes with surging growth.

The call center, Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing in Metro Manila should brace themselves for increasing employee sentiments to have their salary reviewed to combat inflation. The research firm noted that over 73 percent of respondents expressed a need for increased compensation from their employers. In the third quarter of 2008, the index was conducted and polled 100 ICT professionals working in Metro Manila.

In the report it stated that 73 percent over the 70 percent are actively looking for a better opportunities within the city or over seas. It is only 12 percent that are currently satisfied with the current salaries. The numbers indicated a genuine trend of employees demanding increases in the cash component of their remuneration, this is according to the research satisfaction at XMG, Emerson Fababaer. There were very few extrinsic options for employers to address the challenges. Either provide a relief in the form of increased compensation, allowance, subsidy or position the current compensation package as being above industry.

The companies have been able to address this by performing regular compensation benchmarks as well as aligning employee attitude and value in building a sense of ownership in the company. The XMG report suggested organizations frequently review their worker incentives programs to raise employees level of commitment and overall productivity. The companies should also independently monitor employee perception and behavior to accurately gauge employee sentiments toward the organization, this is to raise employees level of commitment and overall productivity.

The Philippine Outsourcing Industry will largely remain a bright spot in the next two years and continue to grow well in the next decade. The ongoing credit crisis will force financial and insurance firm to seriously consider selling Information Technology and business process service units to third party providers. The XMG predicted that global offshoring to grow 34.7 percent through 2010, this is becaue of the economic slowdown and expected recession. The research firm reduced its forecast to 24.2 percent-due in large to reduced investment by a captive operations.

The global financial upheaval will have a deleterious effect across most industries, however the Information Technology industry and offshoring, the Philippines BPO market growth is expected to fall from 31.2 percent to 25.6 percent. The local Business Process Outsourcing is expected to employ 920,764 Filipinos and generated to US$12.2 in an annual revenues by the year 2010. Outsourcing is the current trend in the global industry today, especially when it comes to hiring the workforce that they need. People can earn a lot of money if people make use of the outsourcing opportunity for employment.

REFERENCE:

http://www.zdnetasia.com/hr-issues-to-affect-philippine-bpo-62047060.htm

http://state-unemployment.com/2831/outsourcing-opportunity-for-employment-for-those-who-need-a-job/

http://microsites.globalservicesmedia.com/destinations/show.article.asp?5D5A115E575B115E

The value of its high-quality outsourcing work will maintain by the Philippines units of US-based companies such as Accenture and IBM. It is a move seen to neutralize anti-outsourcing tax measures, this is announced by the United States. As the President of the United States President Barack Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to charge higher taxes on American firms that have offshore operations, this recommendation was issued ICT research think tank XMG Global.

The American Business Process Outsourcing or BPO, the companies are required to pay taxes twice. XMG, a technology research firm headquarter in the Philippines and Canada said that the Obama proposal will further dampen and squeeze net profitability levels. Become the tipping point for repatriating work back to the US or putting the brakes to offshore. In the issue about the offshore under the Obama Administration, the business trend will not go away and cannot effectively be outlawed.

An aging workforce and the unavailable high cost of operating in the US remain to make the offshoring a viable business strategy, this is the US scenario of ongoing shortages of highly skilled labor for Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing. At the end, the XMG labeled that the Obama tax plan as standing on dubious grounds will have only a nominal impact.

The analyst firm stated that those affected constructively will be a small to medium companies whose offshoring game plan continues to contribute positively to the corporate bottom-line. Making a progress in improving the US economy has a deleterious effect. The merits of outsourcing debate are long on rhetoric and short on good ideas about how to realistically and better address about the critical business issue. If the Obama administration cannot holistically develop other programs aimed at realistically re-skilling the aging American workforce and creating an even-level playing field for global trade, it would be futile. The offshoring will remain to become a business strategy as US companies realize. It cannot mortgage near-term tax savings for potential long-term losses from marginalized globalization.

The outsourcing is the best technique among others. There are many benefits in outsourcing so that most of the people want to outsource, there are also many reason why people outsourced. The reasons are it is a cost savings, focus on core business, cost restructuring, Improve quality, knowledge, contract, operational expertise, access to talent, capacity management, Catalyst for change, enhance capacity for innovation, reduce time to market, commodification, risk management, venture capital, tax benefit, scalability, creating leisure time and liability.

Companies wants to have a best quality of services so that the clients will be satisfy on the work. Business becomes better because of the help of outsourcing, it will have a good development and performance. Others should know that outsourcing is not a wrong or bad technique because some people know that this is not good. Outsourcing helps to find solution in everything, in a way that when there is a problem in the business one of the solution here is to outsource.

REFERENCE:

http://hubportgroup.com/portal/NewsArticles/ITandOutsourcingNews/PhilippineBPOsofUSbasedfirmsmaybetaxedtwi/tabid/159/Default.aspx

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/160816/Philippine-units-of-US-based-BPOs-may-be-taxed-twice-under-Obama-proposal

http://www.xmg-global.com/mc_articles/varticle.html?id=61&aid=1

http://www.allvoices.com/news/3188126-philippine-units


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