By now most businesses and employees have already shifted their processes online: how one communicates, sells, closes and delivers goods and services are, more or less, done digitally now with minimal or no manual intervention required.

There are two key things we need to consider when it comes to what is happening in the country as of late. First is that the country is now in a recession, and second is that 45 percent of the Filipino working population is now unemployed and will have to look for other sources of income. Statistics from December 2019 show that 9 million Filipinos are unemployed; nine months later, that number has ballooned to 27 million.

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