Comment by busterarm
4 years ago
You do know that refugees legally aren't allowed to work, right? You must fully complete your asylum-seeking process before you are allowed to seek employment. That often takes years if not decades.
And because of various financial embargos it's historically very hard to hire Russians in European countries unless they have bank accounts in those countries, which without EU citizenship or long-term residency are very, very hard to get.
Neither of these countries' citizens are allowed to freely travel and work within the EU the way that EU members can.
The EUs Temporary Protection Directive grants a residency permit (including right to work) to Ukrainian refugees. (for at least a year, to be extended as needed as the situation develops)
Okay. So the Ukranians that you were formerly outsourcing to are now working for you locally. And probably less of them.
The overall market was still saturated with more jobs than talent _before_ the war started.
Certainly less of them, yes. (E.g. because comparatively few men could or wanted to leave the country). Longer-term, who knows.
> Neither of these countries' citizens are allowed to freely travel and work within the EU the way that EU members can.
True, but they still have temporary residency permit. And I suspect that their refugee status won’t take that long to be worked out. And then, from a realpolitik perspective, most EU countries cannot afford to have hundreds of thousands of additional people using infrastructure and resources whilst not working (I mean they could, but the whole continent is shifting to the right, so that won’t be a stable political situation). All of this to say, I am pretty sure most of them will be able to get residency permits, which includes right to work in a country and freedom of movement to the others, for at least a couple of years.