BDO's Frontliner-Employees Continue The Good Fight

To ensure that banking services remain uninterrupted, BDO Unibank, Inc. has kept its branches, ATMs, cash accept machines, and digital channels available with the hard work and resilience of its employees and other bank frontliners like the security and maintenance personnel who support employees as they find ways for clients.

Dan Martinez, a security guard at BDO’s Corporate Center in Makati (CCM), was determined to report to work even if it means walking to the office all the way from Tandang Sora, Quezon City.

“At the start, I didn’t feel myself getting tired since I was walking with colleagues. But when we got to Buendia, my feet and legs started hurting),” Martinez described in the local language his nearly four-hour journey on foot. “It was like we were walking a walk of penance,” he added.

Crisanto Orias, maintenance personnel, also walked for about two hours, from the room he rents in Pasay to BDO’s Corporate Center in Ortigas (CCO). Although his boss advised that attendance was optional, he still decided to work. “I chose to work because I need to fulfill my duty as a father to my two sons,” Orias said.

For four days, Orias walked to and from the office. It wasn’t easy and he said that he had almost given up. But the single father mustered strength from his sons.