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has it become impossible to work remotely from russia?
by jdrc 5y ago
has it become impossible to work remotely from russia?
- smugglerFlynn 5y agoI assume you mean staying abroad while keeping working for the Russian company. You need to understand the scale. Just today Yandex (one of the largest IT companies in Russia, think “Russian Google”) has announced[0] they are at risk of default. That’s 10 000 people, and Yandex is not the only large IT company. Companies like EPAM also have plans to evacuate people, that’s north of 30k people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia and it is not clear how many layoffs there will be. 0 — https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5240531 https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5240531
- jdrc 5y agowhat about the other way around (living in russia working remotely)
- smugglerFlynn 5y agoPeople fear what happens next, those who can do their best to leave. We focus on it as it seems to be a major crisis. But you are right, people who stay will need help as well.
- cguess 5y agoGood luck getting paid. The banks are pretty much all under sanctions. There's no SWIFT transfers, so no deposits from abroad.
- veganhouseDJ 5y agoThe whole Russian economy is going to collapse. Gazprom is down 87% in Europe since the Russian markets were open. That is a giant energy company with oil up huge. The ruble took another massive hit again last night. Any Russian financial company is probably already wiped out. I wouldn't be shocked if the market doesn't open next week, it is not reopening and everything is going to have to be nationalized. We have never seen this before with a modern economy. In the 1929 market crash 25% of the US population were still farmers. Russia is 5% farmers. Most people are directly exposed to the fragility of the modern economy.
- bootlooped 5y agoMy first thought is, with the current sanctions, how would you pay the remote worker? I can't imagine any company right now thinking it's optimal to hire somebody residing in Russia.