What Philippine Labor Law Means for Your US Payroll Setup
US founders hiring in the Philippines often carry the same assumptions they'd apply to domestic hiring: flexible arrangements, contractor-friendly structures,…
How to Vet a Philippine BPO Before You Sign Anything
Most Philippine BPO contracts are signed on the strength of a sales deck. The compliance documents come later — if they come at all. That pattern is how buyers…
Plug-and-Play Offices in Davao: What Seat Leasing Includes
Sourcing furniture, negotiating ISP contracts, procuring IT hardware, and assembling compliance documentation separately — operators who go that route typicall…
Philippine BPO Cost Per Seat: What You Actually Pay in 2025
Most cost estimates for Philippine BPO seats are wrong — not because providers are dishonest, but because they quote labor and stop there. Mandatory benefits,…
Harold Ladaran: Leading Splace BPO From Davao to Global Scale
Harold Rey Ladaran did not build Splace BPO in Davao City by accident. The choice was deliberate — a founder-level decision about where to root an operation, a…
How to Hire a Philippine VA Without Losing IP Control
Founders hire a Filipino VA, hand over system access, and never put enforceable IP controls in place — not because they are careless, but because they assume t…
Philippine EOR vs. PEO: Which One Actually Protects You
US and AU founders hiring in the Philippines routinely use "EOR" and "PEO" as if they mean the same thing. They do not — and the difference is not a...
EOR vs. Setting Up a Philippine Entity: A Cost Breakdown
You have 15 Filipino hires confirmed and a pipeline of 10 more. The team is ready. Now comes the structural question that stalls more growth-stage companies th…
How to Staff a Philippine Finance Ops Team Under One SLA
Most finance ops leads at US, Australian, and European companies are managing three separate vendor relationships at any given time: a staffing or recruitment…
Seat Leasing vs. Remote Work: When a Physical Hub Wins
A 20-person Philippine CX team. Fully remote. Six months in, the cracks appear: agents miss shift handoffs because a Slack message got buried, a security incid…