A bus ride to the south, Ukraine offers an easy move for fence-sitting IT workers

A bus ride to the south, Ukraine offers an easy move for fence-sitting IT workers: a lower income tax, easy work permits, higher average salaries, and a working environment where Russian is widely understood. These advantages are listed in a 112.ua article “Why Belarus IT Specialists Move to Ukraine on Massive Scale.” Ukraine’s IT industry employs 180,000 programmers, three times the number in Belarus. With reports of Belarus IT technicians barred from boarding outbound planes in Minsk, the article says IT workers may choose to leave their options open by quietly coming to Ukraine for extended ‘vacations.’