More firms adopting telecommuting amid traffic woes – DOLE

TECHNOLOGY can now enable jobs to be done by the employee at home, giving workers and management the flexibility to enter into work-from-home arrangements as a way of skirting the issue of low productivity as a result of the traffic jams in main thoroughfares of the metropolis, according to a labor executive.

Leveraging on technological breakthroughs, some employers are adopting flexible work arrangements (FWAs), Mary Grace Riguer, officer-in-charge of the Institute for Labor Studies said in a statement over the weekend. “In the Philippines there are some players already, and we noted that some of the industries can engage workers in telecommuting,” she said.