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February 26, 2022 01:00 pm
Original Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/02/26/0330204/how-a-us-tech-firm-struggled-to-get-its-employees-out-of-kyiv?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=
How a US Tech Firm Struggled to Get Its Employees Out of Kyiv
On Friday the Washington Post's live updates on the Russia-Ukraine situation included the story of a tech firm trying to get its employees out of Kyiv:John Sung Kim, chief executive of the software outsourcing company JetBridge, has been communicating with his 24 employees in Kyiv, all software developers, through Slack. Half of them are trying to leave Ukraine, but Kim says he is struggling to help them and has been unable to get them train tickets, a rental car or gasoline. "The other half of my team wants to stay and fight," said Kim. "I got on an all-hands with them this morning and told them it's not their responsibility to be soldiers and there's other ways they can contribute since they're software engineers, but there's nothing I can say to dissuade them."Kim said JetBridge's clients are almost exclusively Silicon Valley tech companies that are publicly traded or have raised venture capital financing. "The universal issue other than transportation logistics seems to be grandparents. 'My babushka' is the common theme of why they're torn from actually leaving," he said.The fallout from Russia's invasion has also impacted JetBridge's employees in Belarus. "The males in Belarus are scared that there's going to be military conscription, and unlike the Ukrainians, my Belarusian engineers have zero desire to pick up a rifle. Zero," he said. In anticipation of European Union sanctions on Belarus, Kim said JetBridge has started paying employees in bitcoin.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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