US IT company ABBYY has dismissed all Russian employees
www.pravda.com.ua
US IT company ABBYY has dismissed its employees with Russian citizenship from its offices in Serbia, Hungary and Cyprus.
  • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
    655·
    1 month ago

    That’s a pity. I work for a large US software company and after the war began, we made a decision to close all operations inside Russia.

    We gave our employees in Russia a choice, they could either stay in Russia and get a pretty nice severance package, or they could move out of Russia and get a pretty nice repatriation package to the country of their choosing. Many went to expensive places like Sweden and got their packages converted to local pay with many months extra pay for moving expenses.

    We didn’t fire any Russians living outside of Russia, of course. Assuming everyone from a country is a spy is pretty silly.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      1 month ago

      I don’t think they assume everyone is a spy. I think it’s that they aren’t confident in their ability to weed them out. Still seems extreme but really depends on the confidentiality of their work.

      • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 month ago

        Still silly, if they aren’t confident to weed out Russian spies with Russian nationality, they are even less confident to weed out Russian spies with other nationalities. I would think that most undercover Russian spies don’t have Russian nationality, because that is an obvious attribute, which is easy for a government secret agency to change.

        There really is nothing better than background checks, and privilege separation for this kind of stuff.

        • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 month ago

          Yeah understandable, and I agree. They might have been in the process of getting a contract with a gov or similar large client that had a nationality requirement as part of the requirements too. I’m not trying to defend them though, just probing at other potential reasons for their move that may not be entirely visible from what they seem on the surface.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    The article is too short to draw any conclusion but in that framing from an affected party it sounds shitty. I feel like we only see the ending to a long story, like a mole hunt in their ranks or whatever. The quoted guy supposes they did so because company’s workers may have an access to documents of their clients and I’d call that bullshit for, like, how it even works and why would anyone allow it?