Countries like Australia and Japan which have an aging population, need for greater manpower in their respective healthcare sectors.

Human resource professionals talk of deploying skilled Filipinos in demand in Australia and Japan whose aging population require the services of health workers.

Local human resources (HR) firm Q2 HR Solutions bared plans of moving more Filipinos abroad for better opportunities, increasing their deployment to countries that need healthcare, particularly Japan and Australia.

This was learned from Q2 chairman and president Trixie Whyte who only has praise for the Filipino worker.

“Filipinos are strategically equipped,” Whyte said of the skill and talent inherent in most Filipinos.

“Filipinos are known for being hardworking. In fact, Filipinos are sought after by employers because of our work ethic,” she quickly added.

The HR firm, operating in the country for almost 20 years, has already deployed more than 50,000 Filipino workers to over a thousand clients consisting of a mix of various entities as business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and hospitals.

The Q2 chief also said countries like Australia and Japan which have an aging population, need for greater manpower in their respective healthcare sectors.

“These are strategic countries based on their needs,” she said.

According to her, they hope to deploy at least a thousand Filipinos to these countries by 2020.

Sought for comment regarding the effect of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence on their business, Whyte said that they are already preparing for it despite its little to none in terms of impact on them.

“There is a need for efficiency that’s why we automate. We understand the need for automation, for integration,” she said.

“There will be certain industries that will be affected, but here in the Philippines, it’s still five, seven years. We won’t be affected in terms of the need for people,” she added.

According to Whyte, they only deploy Filipinos as she noted that it’s a way of keeping her late husband’s confidence on Filipinos alive, recalling on how her better half “believe in the Filipino talent.”

“My feelings of fulfilment lie in being part of a system where I feel I have made a meaningful contribution by enriching the lives of the Filipino people through my company. I feel grateful and blessed that I’m given this opportunity to help others and uplift lives and businesses,” Whyte said.

To recall, remittances from overseas Filipino workers contribute much to economic activities as latest figures from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas bared sustained improvements on such growing by 4.2 percent as of end-August 2019. Such liquidity has fueled consumption activities that are some of the more robust in the region, making the Philippines that much more capable of generating local output expansion or growth.