Work from home set-up are still encouraged by DTI.

Work from home set-up is encouraged as much as possible as for the Department of Trade in Industry (DTI) and still gets paid. Some of the business who is in need to get back to work and under general community quarantine can operate at 100 percent capacity but if they can make it work from home do it for their safety.

“Isa pong paalala na allowed pa rin at ine-encourage in fact ang work from home. So ang importante lang po ay tuloy ang sweldo ng workers na ito kahit nagtatrabaho sa bahay,”  Department of Trade in Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said in an interview on ABS-CBN’s Teleradyo on Monday.

(We just want to remind everyone that work-from-home setup is still allowed and is being encouraged. What’s important is the employees still get paid even if they work from home.)

“Sa mga binuksan natin, karamihan dito ‘yung mga services, ‘yung mga architecture, IT, engineering services, legal, accounting, mga programming. Ang mga magbubukas lang po diyan, ‘yung talagang physical siguro, ‘yung mga retail, wholesale trade, repair, ‘yung mga tindahan sa mall, pero syempre ‘yung pwedeng work from home, work from home din sila,” he added.

(From the businesses we reopened, most of these are services like architecture, IT, engineering, legal, accounting, programming. Those that will physically open most likely are retail, wholesale trade, and repair businesses, and shops in malls, but those that can still work from home, they are encouraged to still work from home.)