PLDT postpones outsourcing talks with IBM

TALKS to outsource the in operations of PLDT Inc. to a unit of International Business been postponed, PLDT Chair

would be “under a different

in talks with other US- based IT firms.

“Some are US- based IT firms. - cators,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the company’s half results late Thursday in

company has yet to estimate how many employees would be affected by the out

“None yet, we estimate, but I think it’s into… but the dis better idea,” he said.

company’s plan to outsource the move could affect 1,000 PLDT employees.

will be retained. We have to retain the so- called brains of in a previous interview.

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that PLDT has reduced unnecessary expenses such as travels abroad and attendance at others, to help cut costs.

PHOTO BY LISBET K. ESMAEL PLDT Chairman Manny V. Pangilinan talks to reporters on the sidelines of PLDT’s media briefing on its first-half earnings held in Makati City on August 10, 2017.