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Anthropic's new flagship claims Fable-level results at 40% lower cost. Here's what the benchmarks and early users actually show.
Articles from the team at Flex: remote staffing, hiring Filipino talent, and the engineering behind the platform.
Anthropic's new flagship claims Fable-level results at 40% lower cost. Here's what the benchmarks and early users actually show.
Three production Astro codebases moved to Astro 7 and Vite 8 in one day. The five problems that surfaced, why each happened, and the fix for every one.
The industry's own association lowered its 2028 forecast by at least 8.5 billion dollars. What the new numbers say about jobs, AI and where growth moves.
A portfolio proves little and a trivia quiz proves less. The five checks that show whether a Filipino developer can do the job, in the order that saves time.
Three lawful roads, two written notices, a thirty-day clock and a cheque: how a dismissal in the Philippines is done, and what a skipped step costs.
New Zealand runs four hours ahead of Manila, then five. The shifts that work, the 2026 pay arithmetic in NZ dollars, and who employs the person.
The six tools an offshore team uses every day, the design rule behind each, the one category Philippine privacy law says to skip, and what a provider replaces.
One in five Filipino employees is expected to leave their job this year. The reasons behind the number, what remote work changes, and what keeps people.
The onboarding checklist for a remote employee in the Philippines: the papers, the deadlines, the first-day setup and the two clocks that start on day one.
What 402 Filipino applicants asked to be paid in 2026, by role and experience, in pesos and dollars, and the costs the asking figure leaves out.
Skip the folklore essays. Six concrete things about working with Filipino teammates that change how a US manager should run the week, the quarter and December.
Hiring fraud runs both directions: fake candidates and fake recruiters. What screening actually catches, with real counts from one pipeline's application door.
The cost math is published elsewhere. This is the decision itself: five questions that tell a company which model fits, and when direct hire honestly wins.
Most employers now test skills before hiring. One pipeline's 133 graded sittings show what results really look like, and why the middle band matters most.
Benchmarks say four to eight weeks. One pipeline's clock, read stage by stage on 387 applications, shows where the days go and which are the client's.
Five rules that decide most disputes with a Filipino employee: probation, dismissal, pay premiums, contributions, and the telecommuting law, in brief.
Which roles Filipino applicants queue for, which ones clear vetting, and where supply runs thin. One pipeline's numbers: 387 applications, eleven weeks.
Wise, Payoneer, PayPal, a bank wire, a wallet, or one invoice to a provider. What each rail costs, what lands in pesos, and who carries the tax.