Tymbe's Michal Harášek aims to speed up hiring from the Philippines

Brno-based company Tymbe is working with the Czech Chamber of Commerce on a “Labor Mobility Portal,” an app meant to make hiring workers from the Philippines simpler and faster. The process now takes about six months and involves roughly 110 steps.

Michal Harášek, co-founder of Tymbe and a member of the Forbes “30 Under 30” list, says some documents between Czechia and the Philippines are still sent physically. Visas, permits and forms turn into a bureaucratic marathon.

In the new app, the employer and the Czech and Philippine agencies are connected directly with the candidate. The candidate enters data online, and the program warns of errors and missing information before anything is submitted. Documents go straight to the Chamber of Commerce, one of the guarantors of the government’s Qualified Worker program, which accredits employers and checks compliance with the law.

According to Harášek, it is a joint venture: the Chamber brings experience in vetting employers and contacts with Czech companies, while Tymbe provides the software. Chamber president Zdeněk Zajíček stresses that data should be entered once, checked at the very beginning and passed on securely to those who need it. For the full effect, he added, the state should join the project and connect its systems directly.

Tymbe has not yet calculated exactly how much time companies will save. But Harášek estimates that automation will cut the number of manual operations and checks by about two thirds. The same team could then handle many more candidates for more employers, and the Czech market would gain an edge over other EU countries that also hire in the Philippines.

The prototype has been in development since this spring, and the first clients are already testing it; testing will continue into 2027. The company plans to present the app to the Philippine authorities, where only licensed agencies may recruit candidates. Expansion to other markets has begun too: a memorandum has been signed with a Vietnamese partner.

Tymbe was founded by Michal Harášek and Martin Plašil as a platform for side jobs. The company also had its own staffing agency, which it sold this summer to open the platform to all employers and agencies.

By the Around Prague newsroom