ABBYY, the largest developer of software for processing documents and dictionaries, fired all its employees with Russian citizenship in one day. Mass

Major international IT company sacks all Russian employees in one day

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2024-10-01 17:30:14

ABBYY, the largest developer of software for processing documents and dictionaries, fired all its employees with Russian citizenship in one day. Mass layoffs of programmers took place in offices in Cyprus, Hungary and Serbia.

"During the meeting, everyone was forbidden to text in the chat and everyone's video and microphones were turned off. They said that everyone was fired, that a letter would be sent to the mail," a former ABBYY employee says.

According to one of the former employees, immediately after the meeting, the company shut down corporate access for the fired Russians.

"They fired everyone who had the Russian passport," the employee said specifying that first the layoffs were announced to the Cyprus office, then to the Serbian one, and then to the Hungarian one.

The largest software developer left Russia in 2022. ABBY's main legal entity in the Russian Federation was abolished only on September 2 of 2024.