Buzzing work notifications at the middle of the night or after your working hours. Minor anxiety or paranoia whenever you receive random calls and ton of questions from clients or co-workers during your resting hours. Chicken noise during online meetings and frequent hearing your mom yelling “Magsaing ka na!”. Not to mention, barking dogs and residential noise. These? Are just few from the causes of why a lot of workers today who are in Work-From-Home Set-Up are burned out.   Statista study shows that 51.4% of workers as of 2020 are more stress than ever. Given that they are working...

Delivery app Foodpanda Philippines has been receiving several complaints from restaurant owners online. “We are saying goodbye to Foodpanda as it is not profitable and reasonable at all,” said in a Facebook post by SizzlingPoint; one of Foodpanda’s former restaurant partner. The restaurant also enumerated how the delivery app “kills small business” like them. Giving out FREE FOOD to scammer customers unreasonably cancelling orders and not releasing the payment to us. (FYI, we always double check the orders before sending.) High platform fee. I know it's our choice, but it's too much. 12% VAT from them PLUS another 12%VAT for...

Filipino farmers face many challenges amidst the pandemic; from the lack of capital and mechanization to the high cost of output and the painfully low pricing of their products in markets, not to mention the lack of support from the Philippine government. Hence, millions of those tilling the fields are plunged into poverty. Fortunately an ever increasing number of nearby people are getting into supporting “farm-to-table” initiatives; private groups eliminate the middle man and help with transportation expenses of conveyances by utilizing on the power of the internet. Besides, numerous associations are presently paving the way for making sustainable income...

  Contrary to the common belief, social class is more than just about how much money you’re making. Sociologists actually define social class as a group of people with similar socioeconomic status or standing within the society based on the level of income, education, and occupation. Social classes range from low to high and often reveal dissimilarities in terms of power, influence, and access to resources and privileges. There has been a plethora of debate about what makes one classified as poor, middle class, and rich. And, to give clarification to that, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has...

The economic recovery in the Philippines will be much slower than most of its regional neighbours, as the coronavirus pandemic crisis in the country remains uncontrolled, according to the World Bank. According to Noelan Arbis, economist at HSBC, the slow economic recovery is due to the slow recovery of services sector which is a major contributor to a country’s economic growth. He also noted that the Philippines needs more “fiscal stimulus” to improve mobility in order to have vigorous recovery. "The pandemic has hit the services sector far worse than other sectors of the economy like manufacturing. Like China, it...