VK prohibited employees from working from abroad

company The VK (formerly Mail.ru ), which includes the social network of the same name, posted a letter on its internal network stating that remote work for the company will be possible only from Russia. Its text is quoted by The Bell and TASS .

“We are maintaining this format [of remote work], but we clarify that it is possible from the territory of Russia,” the letter to employees says.

press service The VK confirmed this to journalists, saying that “full-time remote work with all access, including working with user data, is possible from the office or remotely from the territory of Russia.”

In January, The Bell claimed , citing a source, that VK management offered to return to Russia to employees “with access to critical data.” is not going to fire [refused] employees “ VK , since there is already a shortage of IT specialists on the market,” the publication’s interlocutor noted at the time.

According to Vice , employees of the Russian division of Kaspersky Lab were also banned from working from abroad after the start of the war. Several employees who left Russia told the publication that they were required to resign, and the company’s founder, Evgeny Kaspersky, explained this with the words “If the captain remains on the ship, then so does the crew, despite the weather.”

At state-owned Sberbank and Gazprombank, employees told The Bell , remote work outside Russia was prohibited even before the start of the war.