A file photo of a woman working on a laptop in an office in Kiev, Ukraine. — Reuters
A dispute involving a US fintech company and a group of sacked Ukrainian software engineers highlights the difficulties a prolonged war in Ukraine could pose to the country’s hefty IT sector and its almost 300,000 workers.
Three weeks after Russia invaded, software engineer Alex Zaichenko said the eight members of his quality assurance team were told by their IT-outsourcing firm that its client, Alchemy Technologies, no longer needed their services.
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