MANILA, Philippines - Five years ago, when Mark Barachina first arrived in Singapore, he fell in love with the country. He successfully found employment there and was able to fulfill a dream for himself and his family to live and work abroad.
Today, however, Barachina is back in the country after realizing his career dreams were here all along. He now works as a senior storage and backup administrator for TELUS International Philippines, a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm.
Just like Barachina, there are more OFWs out there who still think working abroad is the key to a brighter future for themselves and for their family.
While this remains a common perception, many companies, such as TELUS International Philippines, are working hard to offer advantages to building careers locally.
For the company, it is especially important to keep a pulse on the perceptions of the Filipino worker. This is because it started as a homegrown company founded almost eight years ago.
While the company is a subsidiary of TELUS Corp., a leading multibillion-dollar telecommunications and technology provider headquartered in Canada, it has never forgotten its local start-up roots and is able to merge the best of both overseas and Filipino cultures into its daily operations.