Rumors about a mass exodus of IT workers from Russia turned out to be too exaggerated
Some state funds contribute to the outflow of IT personnel from Russia.
IT expert Igor Ashmanov stated this at a meeting of the Federation Council commission for the protection of state sovereignty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There is an outflow of IT workers, but not as monstrous as they say. Nevertheless, some programmers went, especially those who worked for Western companies. Who set the condition: either you leave, or we fire you.
These companies did not create the backbone of domestic technologies. Much fewer domestic companies come, but there is subversive activity by people who are engaged in relocation, persuading IT specialists to leave. Sometimes state funds allow this to be advertised on their sites,” Ashmanov said.
According to the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC), up to 70 thousand IT workers have already left Russia, and up to 100 more people will leave in April. The Russoft developer association believes that the numbers are much more modest: 000 thousand left, but during this year half of them will return.
Economist Nikita Krichevsky agrees with the second assessment. He cited rabid Russophobia in the West and the inability of programmers to settle down in a foreign land as factors that will force IT specialists to return. He also believes that the desire to return will be facilitated by the introduction of a deferment from conscription, preferential mortgages and other efforts undertaken by the state to stimulate the IT sector.
“The key to the solution may be the creation within the EurAsEC of structures that create an organizational basis for opening accounts and receiving payment on them, for example, in the republics of Central Asia. Also, the solution to the problem is “gray import”. The sooner the government, customs, and business realize that we live in a new reality where there are no rules, the sooner the supply of machinery, equipment, household appliances, and other necessary things will be established through third countries, for example, through Armenia, Turkey, Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan . To the satisfaction of all parties.
Perhaps we are writing too frankly, perhaps it is worth writing that retailers from friendly countries will soon begin operating in our market, but the basic message in counter-propaganda in any case should be this: “This is NOT your LAST iPhone,” Krichesky wrote in his telegram -channel.
The desire of IT specialists to leave should not be explained only by the recently introduced Western sanctions. They wanted to leave Russia before that. So in November last year, the foreign agent TV channel Dozhd published the results of a survey, according to which 53% of IT students would like to go abroad. Of these, 25% want to go to the USA, 7% to the UK, 6% to Germany, 5% to Canada, 23% to other countries.
Recently, the social network VKontakte announced that it is ready to hire more than 1000 IT specialists.
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