A lame excuse
BY AMADO MACASAET
Self-contained city for BPOs
Eastwood City Cyberpark prides itself as the country’s first information technology (IT) park.
It has a reputation of having been buildings for "business process outsourcing (BPO). The eighth building with a floor area of 34,000 square meters will be competed by the end of the year.
That makes Eastwood City Cyberpark, sitting on a 24.6-hectares area in Libis, Quezon City overlooking the Marikina Valley, the biggest concentration of BPOs in the whole country. After all, the firm, owned by office and condominium developer Megaworld Corp., was specifically designed to be the BPO and IT "capital" of the Philippines.
Among the more prominent locators in Eastwood City Cyberpark are IBM, Dell, Siemens and eTelecare.
The locators are engaged in call center, IT business services, human resource infotech, and animation, among many other activities.
According to Jericho Go, Megaworld’s first vice president for business development, Eastwood City Cyberpark has all the makings of being a BPO capital.
He said the new building "will address the expansion requirements of our locators as well as the office space requirements of new BPOs."
He explained that apart from having all it takes to operate a BPO – wired environment, adequate communications facilities, back-up power and fiber optic cables – the cyberpark also offers BPO officials and employees new residential condominiums for lease.
The strategy, according to Go, is to make BPO workers feel they hardly ever left home or are in a better place where they can work ad play, dine and shop, see movies all in one place.
Go pointed out that the place is 24/7 – open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
That, he said, makes life for tens of thousands of residents including BPO workers live an active lifestyle shorn of the hazzle and buzzle of a metropolis.
For years no, he said, "our BPO and call center workers have worked hard and played hard at Eastwood City."
The new building is called Global One Center which, Go said, "assures locators of uninterrupted operations and flow of information and data."
- Amado P. Macasaet
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