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I can feel the emotional and mental fatigue brought by the COVID pandemic, that I now look at any news related on the covid variants as mere threat to control the public.
Why do I say this? Because there seems to be a conflicting standpoint on the issue of healthcare and economy/business during this pandemic period. I don't understand why the government would rush into opening the businesses to operate and push the workers who safely and can conveniently on the work from home (WFH) set-up to go back to face-to-face, if there really is a serious threat to health?
As a member of the commuting public, months before the National Capital Region was placed on alert level 1, I can see that the people are still hesitant to the idea that Metro Manila will be opened to a more relax level, yet, the government persisted. And now that the public has adjusted, the government is pressing the warning signals, yet, insisting that those in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry must resume to their office set up, why do you keep on distracting the organize and peaceful set up that some industries has learned to adapt.
Can't the national authorities even consider that the BPOs wfh set up merits recognitions following its success and help to the Philippine economy during the last two years that we were downed by Covid? Can't you see and appreciate that the WFH helped greatly in reducing the country's traffic problem? And can't you even consider the money and time saved from not commuting were diverted to other priorities and expenses of each working class?
I think the labor management and the tax mogul of the administration must instead of mandating the BPOs to force their labor force to report to office, should instead help them find ways to even sustain their home-office set-up amid the flaws of working from home that is typically exposed to the noise brought by the honks of vehicles, barking dogs, roosters, and even the neighbors fighting and shouting not to include the technical issues of signal and power interruptions.
We are in 2022 now, if most countries survived the WFH in recent years why change it, why not completely adopt it and even improve the system. This is already the 3rd millennium, maybe it would be good that we all should start thinking out of the box. Just my one cent thought.