Question & AnswerQ&A (MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 88)
The minimum required on-site capacity is at least 20% of the agency's total workforce at any given time, with the remainder under work-from-home arrangements.
Yes. Agencies providing health and emergency frontline services, laboratory and testing services, border control, and other critical services are allowed up to full on-site capacity.
'On-site capacity' refers to the number of employees or workers who should be physically present at their designated workplaces outside of their residences, expressed as a percentage of an agency's total workforce.
'Skeleton workforce' refers to the on-site capacity which utilizes the smallest number of people needed for a business or organization to maintain its basic functions.
The head of each agency determines the size of its skeleton workforce, considering the services that must be continuously provided during MECQ.
Heads of agencies must submit to their respective department heads the specific percentage of the agency's skeleton workforce along with the arrangements to ensure continuing operation. The submitted arrangements must be implemented immediately upon MECQ onset.
Yes, the department head may, at any time, direct modifications of the submitted on-site capacity or related arrangements as health considerations and service exigencies require.
The offices of the legislative and judicial branches, independent constitutional commissions and bodies, and local government units in NCR are strongly urged to adopt the provisions.
It took effect immediately upon issuance on August 20, 2021.