Women drive fast train to Mecca as Saudi workforce evolves

Agence France Presse 01/30/2023

JEDDAH — Driver Tharaa Ali takes her seat at the helm of a high-speed train ferrying pilgrims to Mecca, a beneficiary of conservative Saudi Arabia’s bid to employ its booming female workforce. Saudi women only gained the…

Cebu Landmasters, Inc. kickstarts vaccination program for its workforce, dependents 

Rhobie A. Ruaya 07/13/2021

With its goal to continuously push its efforts for COVID-19 relief among its employees, the leading developer in VisMin, Cebu Landmasters, Inc. (CLI), has commenced its COVID-19 Vaccination Program, which rolled-out since July 9, 2021 at the…

ICS and Dell Technologies Enable Workforces to Go Digital Easily

Marc Cosep 09/09/2020

With most businesses at a standstill and the country under community quarantine, perhaps the most overwhelming challenge businesses face right now is transitioning their workforce from office to online and remote work.  Despite having an idea of…

The risk of a face-to-face economy

Antoinette R. Raquiza - @inquirerdotnet 09/06/2020

The call for the speedy reopening of the economy is gaining ground as the Philippines sinks into the worst recession in three decades. As early as July, in fact, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry had…

PCCI: Allow PUVs to operate

JHESSET O. ENANO, Leila B. Salaverria, Roy Stephen Canivel 06/09/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) has urged the government to bring back public transportation, as countless workers continue to have little to no means of getting a ride to work in…

Elderly people key to Japan’s workforce

Asia News Network, Inquirer.net 09/18/2018

TOKYO — The number of elderly people — aged 65 years or older — who held a job in 2017 reached a record high of 8.07 million, according to statistics compiled by the Internal Affairs and Communications…

Readying Cebu’s workforce while waiting for ‘RE boom’

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/20/2018

Vivant Foundation partners with DepEd to provide students skills to handle solar power equipment The future of the energy industry needs a workforce that is competent to handle services and equipment to harness renewable energy, such as…

IT-BPM workforce’s upskilling needed – Tholons’ chairman

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/17/2018

Business leaders and companies in the Information Technology-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) sector are encouraged to develop digital skills and talent, and digital services to keep up with the global demand for these kinds of talents, skills and…

Firms urged to invest in upscaling workforce

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/17/2018

IT, BPM sector and the AI phenomenon With the need to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more apparent, industry experts in Cebu continue to call on companies to invest in upscaling their workforce. At the same time,…

Moving into the workforce from grade 12

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/07/2017

WHILE parents and guardians were busy attending the “Moving Up” ceremonies of their children this week, 26-year-old Carmel Allosada Deloy was busy with hers. And with her five-year-old daughter in attendance, Carmel walked up the stage of…

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