Stefan Mileschin

Better than being sent to Sibera

Tsar Putin has decided that the best way to replace the brain drain of IT experts fleeing the country is to use forced prison labour as cheap coders .


Foreign IT companies have been moving their Russian staff out of the country to avoid international sanctions and others which shuttered their operations have seen staff escaping to greener pastures overseas.

Tsar Putin has come up with a brilliant, glorious plan to force technology experts who he might have once arrested for being homosexuals, or speaking out against the state, as a cheap labour force. Because the best way to get good coders is to lock them up for silly crimes, force them to work on code for companies they hate, and pay them nothing for their efforts.

Multiple Russian news outlets published stories on April 27 saying the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service had announced a plan to recruit IT specialists from Russian prisons to work remotely for domestic commercial companies.

https://fudzilla.com/news/54795-tsar...w-cost-it-work