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My employer is based in Warsaw, Poland with offices in Ukraine, Russia, and many other countries. A day or two after the invasion they sent a company wide email saying they will pay for and coordinate moving, transit, housing, food, etc for anyone and their family in Russia, Ukraine, or the surrounding countries. About a week later they shut down operations in Russia. Though not confirmed we were told a not insignificant portion of Russian employees fled to Poland and still work my employer.

I doubt this occurred at very many places, but anecdotally Poland gained a meaningful number of highly skilled tech workers. I haven't worked with any of the Russians, but many of my Polish counterparts hold the belief that the US is largely responsible for the invasion of Ukraine. I will be very interested to see immigration numbers of where Russians end up.



Poland and surrounding countries no longer give or extend visas to Russians. My guess people who came were from Ukraine.


So they want people to go back and work for Putin? Smart move.




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