Research seat

How it works

This glossary’s own craft. Demand links. Overnight research for a U.S. morning decision is a clean PH product. English as a filter still applies; citation quality is the extra bar. 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: brief at 6 p.m. Pacific, six-source memo at 6 a.m. with links and what is still unknown.

How it differs

Paralegal research is legal. Data researcher in the 701am skills sense is campaign-facing. Creative is not research.

Common errors

Accepting unsourced bullets because they ‘sound right.’

In practice

Treat Research seat as a week-one operating object. Restate the week-four outcome in one sentence. If you cannot, the role is still a pile of leftover tasks. 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 research seat 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.