Calm down and bring back the IT people

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As Valentin Makarov, President of NP "RUSSOFT", noted when opening the IT breakfast "IT Industry on the Threshold of Choice: to Join the Ranks of World Leaders or Serve Other People's Solutions", the outflow of personnel, along with the cessation of exports due to difficulties with international payments, were the main fears of the industry. But these problems were solved. Nevertheless, the outflow of personnel has indeed become a significant, unpleasant, but still not critical factor. Personnel losses do not exceed 2-3%. At the same time, a significant part of those who left the country continued to work remotely.

According to Sergey dubai cell phone number list Rezontov, CEO of IBS InfiniSoft, the reduction in interaction with international customers has become one of the main negative factors for the custom software development sector. Russian IT companies have managed to retain a significant share of employees and teams that left IT companies and reorient them to Russian customers.

Finally, the measures to support the industry adopted at the end of March had a noticeable positive effect, and as a result, as Valentin Makarov noted, the number of those returning to the country had already exceeded the number of those leaving by the summer.

At the same time, the need for personnel also grew, especially from companies that focused on the domestic market. Elena Bocherova, Executive Director of Cyberprotect LLC, shared her experience of doubling the staff in conditions when the company was the only solution provider in its segment. This became a serious challenge, comparable to the one that a small bakery designed to work in one block would face, but it had to provide bread to an entire city. The main resource was the personnel from companies that left the market, which had to be adapted. Partial mobilization was a separate challenge, and here the Ministry of Digital Development, which conducted a dialogue with the industry, provided invaluable assistance.

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The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, spoke out against restrictions and draconian measures against IT specialists who left the country. He is sure that it is necessary to create conditions for those who left to return. In addition, according to the minister, the criteria for deferment from mobilization for IT specialists will no longer have to be expanded.

Andrey Shastin, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at Auriga, noted that a long-standing problem in Russian IT is the shortage of technical directors and product ow