OFW means Overseas Filipino Worker: a Filipino citizen working for pay in a country where they are not a citizen, including seafarers on foreign vessels. The term is defined by Republic Act No. 8042 as amended, and deployment is regulated by the Department of Migrant Workers. It matters here because BPO work is the stay-home alternative: the same foreign-client earnings without leaving the country.
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