1、The Filipino Abroad June 2026 By Julian Cua,Anthony Oundjian,Lance Katigbak,Jamie Bawalan-Lim,Aditi Bathia,Jaymes ShrimskiAbout Boston Consulting Group Boston Consulting Group bridges the gap between ambition and outcomes for the worlds leading companies and organizations.We are built for this era o
2、f unprecedented change bringing strategic clarity rooted in over 60 years of deep domain knowledge,combined with applied AI shaped by our practitioners.BCG works shoulder-to-shoulder with CEOs across industries and geographies to deliver transformative impact at scale:stronger returns,transferred ca
3、pabilities,and change that sticks.For more information,visit THE FILIPINO ABROAD 3At any given moment,more than two million Filipinos are working abroad.They pack a bag,say goodbye at an airport,and cross into a life that is,by design,organized around the people they left behind.However,they are not
4、 gone.They are working in hospitals and hotels,on ships and construction sites,in offices and restaurants in cities their families will never see so that the family at home can eat well,study,stay healthy,and face the next emergency from a position of something other than fear.We call them OFWs.An o
5、verseas Filipino worker is a Filipino employed outside the Philippines,most often on a contract,most often sending money home.In this report,we surveyed 1,337 OFWs across four corridors the USA,the Middle East,Asia,and the UK to understand who they are,why they left,whether they are coming back,and
6、what it means for Philippine businesses and institutions to serve them well.We found many stories inside those questions:the young worker in Dubai sleeping in a partitioned room,sending nearly everything home;the professional who built a life abroad,invested in property so she would never return emp