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What Really Drives Employee Engagement? Most organizations ask a familiar question: "How do we improve employee engagement?" The better question may be: "What is preventing employees from being engaged in the first place?" Employee Mental Health in the Philippines: What HR Leaders Need to Know (Part 2) Based on HRMetre™ assessments conducted across thousands of Filipino employees, engagement is influenced less by perks and more by the daily work experience employees have wi

Why Philippine Benchmarks Matter Workforce data is only valuable when interpreted in the right context. Many global HR platforms benchmark organizations against international datasets. While this can be useful for multinational comparisons, these benchmarks often fail to reflect the realities of the Philippine workplace. Leadership styles, communication patterns, cultural values, and employee expectations differ significantly from those in North America or Europe. Understandi

The 5 Evaluation Criteria That Actually Matter When organizations compare HR platforms, they often focus on features such as payroll processing, attendance management, mobile apps, or system integrations. While these capabilities are important, they rarely determine whether an organization will make better people’s decisions. The more important question is: Will this tool help us understand our workforce well enough to improve organizational performance? When evaluating an HR

Why Mental Health Has Become a Business Issue For years, organizations viewed employee mental health primarily as a wellnes s initiative, something addressed through occasional seminars, counseling services, or awareness campaigns. Today's workplace tells a different story. At Premier Value Provider (PVP), our HRMetre™ assessments across 6,540 employees from government agencies, banking and finance, IT-BPM, logistics, hospitality, and real estate organizations reveal that emp

The Problem Isn't Your HR Tool- It's Choosing the Wrong One Imagine this familiar scenario. Your HR team spends weeks evaluating different HR platforms. You attend product demonstrations, compare feature lists, and shortlist systems that promise better employee engagement, improved retention, stronger workforce insights, and "Philippine-ready" solutions. Every platform looks impressive. The dashboards are sleek, the reports are colorful, and the sales presentations promise da

When organizations talk about retention, the conversation almost always revolves around one question: "How do we prevent employees from leaving?" It is a reasonable question. Turnover is expensive. Replacing talent takes time. Losing experienced employees disrupts teams and slows organizations down. But over the years, I've become increasingly convinced that leaders are often watching the wrong signal. The employee who resigns is visible. The employee who quietly stops believ

In the past weeks, Dr. Marshall Valencia, PVP’s President and Director for Research & Analytics, engaged with senior leadership teams across three major national institutions — delivering HRMetre executive briefings and facilitating targeted leadership sessions. These included the Social Security System (SSS) , the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) , and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) — institutions spanning social protection, infrastructure

Even in mission-driven institutions, pride and purpose do not automatically translate to sustainable engagement. In 2025, Premier Value Provider, Inc. (PVP) partnered with a major Philippine financial institution to gain a deeper, data-driven understanding of its workforce experience using the HRMetre™ system. What emerged was not a story of failure — but one of strategic clarity. The Context Using HRMetre™ , PVP conducted a comprehensive workforce health assessment: 1,930

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We’re proud to share that Dr. Marshall Valencia, President and Director for Research and Analytics at Premier Value Provider, Inc. (PVP)...

In this next part, we’ll take a look at what leaders are focusing on in 2025. As the workplace landscape becomes more complex, leaders...