How Stability Attracts Top Dev Talent in the Philippines
About this video
AJ, Head of Talent at Cloud Employee, shares how full employment, local benefits, and long-term support help us attract top developers in the Philippines - developers who stay, grow, and build with your team.
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The majority of developers right now are looking for job security. Every time we headhunt developers, we always ask them what motivates them to move on to a new role or a new job, and they always say the same thing: job security.
This is because most of them are working freelance, directly with companies or clients based in the UK, Australia, or the US. Obviously, those companies don’t have a registered business here in the Philippines. Therefore, developers are just getting paid directly, without benefits.
Whereas with Cloud Employee, we cover all the government-mandated benefits such as PhilHealth, SSS (a pension scheme), and Pag-IBIG for home loans.
We also provide private health insurance, which we call HMO. Because in the UK, healthcare is free, but here in the Philippines, it’s very expensive to get ill.