Philippines call centres: Hot seats
IT IS LUNCHTIME at the Department of Budget and Management and everywhere, staff tuck into their lunchboxes with evident relish. Everyone that is except the department head, secretary Rolando Andaya. Pulling on another cigarette, he listens intently to a local official’s entreaty for more funds to rebuild his barangay’s (parish) school, destroyed in a fire. The supplicant is not alone: the line of local lobbyists snakes out of Andaya’s office and into the corridors of the dilapidated office building.
“It’s pretty much like this every day of the week,” says Andaya, “but it’s election time now so everyone wants to see me.”
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“We’re going to need a lot of help from the private sector, and we need to send them the right signals: that government will get out of business” Gary Teves, finance secretary |
There is much to talk about.
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