US IT company ABBYY has dismissed all Russian employees.

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?

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.

As an immigrant, this is scary.

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