Industry group pushes 1M new jobs in IT, BPO

MANILA - The country’s information technology and outsourcing sector is bullish on its target to generate one million jobs until the end of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term in 2022, an industry leader said Wednesday.

The new job openings will likely be in contact centers, software development, health care and analytics, IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines chairman Dan Reyes told ANC’s “Market Edge with Cathy Yang.”

Reyes said improving internet infrastructure in the countryside was important to meeting the job generation goal.

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