In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, employers were constrained to adopt alternative work arrangements to continue business operations while preserving their workforce. At the height of this health crisis, employers resorted to flexible work arrangements to replace or augment their office set-up.

Prior to his inauguration in June, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said that he would entwine a policy of strengthened partnership with China and alliance with the US with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy.

Despite many initiatives for diversity in the workplace, the place that seems to be still impenetrable is the Board Room. Here the macho Chair will not want to listen to other opinions, especially spoken in a woman’s voice. After all, the other directors may just be “rubberstamp,” token board members who collect large per diem allowances and who say “aye, aye sir” to the Chair.

A number of interesting developments happened last week. I will discuss three of them.

INFLATION prognostication tends to come down to reading statistical tea leaves. Friday’s report of strong US job growth looks like a sign of economic...

The Mandanas-Garcia Ruling mandates the expansion of the income base for the computation of the national tax allocation (NTA) for local government units (LGUs) to include not only internal revenue collections but also customs collections.

The Philippine economy has to outgrow the debt! The reverse scenario is unthinkable — it will send the Philippine economy in the direction of Sri Lanka. The Philippine economy grew at 8.3% in 2022 Q1 but that was helped along by a low base of 2021 Q1 and revenge household spending.

ARE THE SANCTIONS against Russia useful? Yes, they are already hitting Vladimir Putin and his accomplices hard and their effects on the Russian economy will increase over time.

Headline inflation in June surged by 6.1% year on year from 5.4% in May and 3.7% a year ago, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. This was slightly higher than the 6% median estimate in a BusinessWorld poll conducted at end June, but within the 5.7%-6.5% forecast range of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for the month (BusinessWorld, July 5, 2022).

“Move on” has become the Marcos family’s usual response whenever, in the hope that by remembering the past, history won’t repeat itself, martial law survivors, human rights defenders, historians, independent journalists and other citizens recall what happened during the 14-year dictatorship (1972–1986) of their late patriarch Ferdinand Marcos, Sr.

It’s good to connect two seemingly unrelated pieces of news from the broadsheets.

THERE is an inconvenient open secret that lurks behind many decisions we make every day. We live in a data-empowered era. When we plan a trip, Google estimates our travel time and recommends routes based on both current and past traffic data.