Filipino workers are not at a disadvantage in the online gaming sector amid the reported influx of Chinese nationals in the country, the head of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. said Wednesday.
Pagcor chairperson Andrea Domingo said in a Kapihan forum in Manila that foreign nationals were not taking over jobs that could have been for Filipinos and only 25 percent of the workers employed by online gaming operators were foreigners.
This was echoed by Jose Tria, Pagcor vice president for the Philippine offshore gaming operators, who said licensed online gaming firms were hiring one foreigner for every four Filipinos they employed.
Domingo also said that local jobs given to Chinese nationalities were “distinct,” which mainly required linguistic expertise in the complex languages of China.
She said while there were Filipinos who could speak Mandarin, Cantonese or Hokkien, their diction and accent were different from the mainland Chinese.
“You should know the nuance of the language and the culture is also a factor, especially when you give the good news and the bad news, so it’s a different kind of expertise,” Domingo said.