{"id":13668,"date":"2016-02-15T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2016-02-15T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:17:42","slug":"how-call-centers-are-changing-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/how-call-centers-are-changing-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"How Call Centers Are Changing The Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/021516_2114_HowCallCent1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a wider article about how the call center industry is changing, The Economist had some interesting bits of information about the impact they are having on The Philippines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the west malls have movie cinemas on the top floor to attract youth to the stores on the floors below.<\/li>\n<li>In one Filipino mall the top floor is occupied by a call center. It serves the same purpose \u2013 since it&#8217;s large groups of young people who work there, it helps ensure a steady flow of customers to the stores below.<\/li>\n<li>As many call centers serve those in the west, large numbers of people work through the night. This has led to a vibrant night life with things like 24\/7 Karaoke bars.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile employers outside of the call center industry focus on being able to sleep at night as a big selling point to potential candidates.<\/li>\n<li>Worryingly the weird hours and cramped dormitories seem to have led to an increase in rates of HIV.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21690041-call-centres-have-created-millions-good-jobs-emerging-world-technology-threatens\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21690041-call-centres-have-created-millions-good-jobs-emerging-world-technology-threatens\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wider article about how the call center industry is changing, The Economist had some interesting bits of information about the impact they are having on The Philippines: In the west malls have movie cinemas on the top floor to attract youth to the stores on the floors below. In one Filipino mall the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/021516_2114_HowCallCent1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13671,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}