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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Alexander Marrow

Russia risks causing new-year IT worker flight with remote working law

FILE PHOTO: A high-rise apartment block under construction illuminated in the colours of the Russian flag is seen next to skyscrapers of the Moscow International Business Centre, also known as Moskva-City, in Moscow, Russia August 30, 20222. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Russia's buffetted IT sector risks losing more workers in the new year because of planned legislation on remote working, as authorities try to lure back some of the tens of thousands who have gone abroad without prompting them to cut ties completely.

Having relatively portable jobs, IT workers featured prominently among the many Russians who fled after Moscow sent its army into Ukraine on Feb. 24 and the hundreds of thousands who followed when a military call-up began in September.

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