“You sort of feel helpless.” How one tech company used daily check-ins, cash advances and travel help to assist employees in Ukraine ahead of Russia’s invasion.
Fractal Analytics’s Ukraine-based staff is now scattered across at least 10 countries and the CEO worries about those who stayed. ‘You sort of feel helpless.’
Maksym Muzychenko left Lviv, Ukraine, and is now staying in temporary accommodations near Fractal Analytics’s office in Mumbai.In mid-February, days before strikes from Russian forces, a technology company with dozens of employees living and working in Ukraine called an emergency Sunday afternoon town-hall meeting.
Executives at Fractal Analytics Inc., a New York-based artificial-intelligence company, wanted to know: What did its employees in Ukraine need—and did they want to leave the country?
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