IT park geography

How it works

Use it to understand resumes, not to require a badge. WFH exploded the map. A provincial hire can outwrite a park veteran. The park still explains night-shift literacy. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.

Example: resume: five years in a Cebu park voice account. Expect headset discipline and attrition trauma. Interview the person, not the building.

How it differs

PEZA is the incentive regime. BPO alumni is the human residue. Talent density is the national fact.

Common errors

Rejecting anyone not within 5 km of a park.

In practice

Treat IT park geography as a week-one operating object. Ask for a desk shot, a power plan, and a second network path. Geography is not personality. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have it park geography yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.