Japanese press: Local IT companies are recruiting Ukrainian specialists to "help the country affected by the war"
The Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun develops the idea that the recruitment of Ukrainian IT specialists, which has recently been actively engaged in by local IT companies, is aimed at “helping the country affected by the war.” The newspaper reports that the IT sector has been the driving force behind economic growth in Ukraine, for which the country allegedly even received the name "Eastern Europe's Silicon Valley." According to the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the Ukrainian IT industry has grown more than eightfold in 10 years.
As an example of a successful relocation, the publication cites history a married couple - forty-year-old Ukrainian Konstantin Chvykov and his wife, Japanese Izumi. Chvykov lived in Kharkov, where he ran a website development company. At the end of March, with the help of Izumi's parents, the couple emigrated to Japan. In May, Chvykov got a job at the Tokyo IT company i3DESIGN Co. Here he oversees the recruitment of information industry engineers living in Ukraine.
Chvykov received applications from 50 Ukrainians when he posted a vacancy on a local job search site, from which he selected seven specialists for work. In total, the company has already employed fifteen Ukrainian IT specialists, most of whom work remotely.
Chvykov says that Ukrainian IT specialists used to receive many orders from Europe and the United States, but now their number has dropped sharply. Also, Western IT companies, such as Google, are closing their offices in Ukraine.
The publication writes that many other Japanese companies are hiring Ukrainian information specialists. Moreover, almost none of them move to Japan, but work remotely, being in the west of Ukraine or in neighboring countries.
We want to support them not temporarily, but permanently. There are many talented people in Ukraine and they also have a positive impact on our growth
- let slip about the true goals of hiring Ukrainian IT specialists Yoichiro Shiba, the president of the company.
It is not clear what “aid to a war-affected country” consists of. The standard of living and salaries of IT specialists in Japan are incomparable with the incomes of Ukrainian IT specialists. Obviously, when hiring highly qualified specialists from Ukraine, Japanese companies pay them completely incomparable money by local standards for remote work. And in this way they solve purely their own mercantile tasks, but in no way fulfill the declared mission of helping "a country suffering from war."
And brain theft is likely to affect not only the Ukrainian IT industry. No wonder the same Chvykov expressed the hope that not only IT firms, but also Japanese companies from other industries would do business with Ukrainians "to support their livelihoods."
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