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DICT exec: Protection of online workers crucial as ICT use increases during pandemic Share on email The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies that enable telecommuting and virtual collaboration schemes. However, it has also magnified social protection issues faced by online or platform workers, including the lack of security benefits and protection entitlements. This was according to Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) National Planning and Corporate Management Bureau OIC-director George Tardio, who served as a discussant during a webinar on online and platform work recently organized by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). According to Tardio, the public health crisis also showed the need to upskill and reskill online and platform workers, especially those in “the lower end of the value chain”, such as the creative, multimedia, and sales marketing support, “who have been greatly affected by the pand

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