Back to the Philippines » outsourcing http://www.backtothephilippines.com An Overseas Filipino Returns Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:31:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Opening Day http://www.backtothephilippines.com/opening-day/ http://www.backtothephilippines.com/opening-day/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:08:57 +0000 mixxy http://backtothephilippines.com/?p=353 Today is the first day of work for our Philippine team. Unfortunately, the desks and internet were still not yet available so temporarily we are now using the office of our local partner close by. The chairs and the PC’s had to be moved from the new office. During the weekend, one of our team members prepared and installed the PC’s.
While I am writing this, our day has not yet ended since we started working at around 2:30pm today. It started with them setting up their accounts, logon details, installing tools and MrC providing all the information. Next, MrC gave his overview of the whole project during the kickoff meeting. There were pretty good questions from the team which led to meaningful discussions about the system. This was followed by a demo of the current system of one of the team members. Last week he has already been briefed about his tasks so everything was well prepared.
Overall, it went quite well. We are scheduled to start on the new office next week and then early April we will have our office blessing. I also just heard that the Globe phone lines and DSL will be ready tomorrow. The aircon is also functional now.
Oh and by the way, MrC’s father and business partner will be coming over in a few weeks.

]]> http://www.backtothephilippines.com/opening-day/feed/ 0 Wanted: Office Space http://www.backtothephilippines.com/wanted-office-space/ http://www.backtothephilippines.com/wanted-office-space/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:19:38 +0000 mixxy http://backtothephilippines.com/?p=301 MrC is on the verge of closing a new contract with his clients.  With this contract, we would be using three web developers.  We eagerly anticipate the outcome of the talks in the Netherlands with the client.  As of now, they are evaluating the offer.  This new project for the same client will somewhat be a big milestone for MrC’s company since it will be a long term thing therefore he has planned to rent an office space care of our local partner.

As of now we are looking for office spaces with sizes between 60 square meters to 100 square meters.  Based on my initial research and talks with brokers.  Here in Mandaluyong and Ortigas the typical rent would be somewhere between 25K to 45K but can even go up thousands more if nearer to the Ortigas Center or for newer buildings.   We have seen only 1 unit so far which is within walking distance from our place.   Tomorrow, we will be looking at several more.

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