Why Mail.ru, Dr.Web, Qiwi, Acronis and Baikal Electronics do not hurry to return employees in offices

As long the IT companies are going to work in the remote mode

Not all Russian IT companies hurry to return the employees to offices in connection with retreat of a pandemic of a coronavirus.

As the CEO of Dr.Web Boris Sharov certified TAdviser, there are no reasons for return of employees to office yet. However, according to him, the company in it will not interfere with them if only time spent for the road does not prevent them to get to office.

The CEO of Akronis ITProtect company Alexey Badayev does not see sense to force return of employees to office while the situation is not normalized.

Let's monitor the mode in Moscow and the general situation, - he told TAdviser

Crypto Pro will give an opportunity to work far off 80% of employees before the complete termination of a pandemic, the commercial director of the company Yury Maslov assured TAdviser.

In Raidix, according to her chief executive Sergey Razumovsky, also intend to recommend a remote format of work of employees most long, will take however in attention its influence on business processes.

The QIWI is going to begin to bring employees out of the mode of remote work not earlier than since September, the deputy CEO of group Maria Shevchenko told TAdviser.

This solution is dictated as concerns for security and health of employees, and the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor to those companies which allow work of the employees from office. In our office at the same time there are about 1.4 thousand people therefore appearance at work in office by complete structure is impossible because of requirements of Rospotrebnadzor, - marked out Shevchenko

Not earlier than September also the staff of Mail.ru Group will return to office, informed TAdviser in the company. In the letter employees were reported about it also by the head of Mail.ru Group Boris Dobrodeyev ^[1].

So far the situation remains difficult, to return early. Move up schedules every time for few weeks rather tiresomely for all therefore let's take time with a stock: we remain to work as before until the end of summer — Dobrodeyev in the letter says.

He also permited employees at observance of some conditions for remote work to move to other city or to be shipped outward. But provided that at them "on the new place the Internet will not fall off and will perfectly catch phone" and that in working time across Moscow they will be in touch.

At the same time in the address the head of the company noted that Mail.ru Group is going to open partially offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg for those, "to whom absolutely already unbearable", but employees will be able to come to work only in urgent cases.

Until the end of summer is not going to return in large quantities employees in office also to "Yandex". The CEO in Russia Elena Bunina announced it on May 29 it at a general meeting of the company. Employees, according to her, can till September though "remove a lodge in the village, the main thing - that there was a good Internet" ^[2].

At Corus Consulting Group in return of employees to office urgent business necessity is absent. However in the company assume that when her clients return to the offices, a part of specialists will have such need too.

June-July will be for us a transient period for determination of how to work in new reality. We will build new model of customer interaction: main for us there will still be a maximum efficiency of work on projects, but in new conditions safety of employees will also be a priority, - the chairman of the board of directors of Corus Consulting Alexander Semyonov said

In Baikal Electronics in June will continue to work in the remote mode, considering, at the same time, the possibility of preserving for a considerable part of employees of a format of remote work and in the future.

Such mode will allow employees to save considerably time for the road, and the companies - to expand geography of search of personnel, the HR director of Baikal Electronics Tatyana Vinter reported TAdviser. What part of employees Baikal Electronics will leave on the remote mode, it did not specify, having told only that determination of their quantity depends on the decision of heads of divisions made in August-September after studying of results of divisions and their efficiency which they will pass upon termination of the isolation period.

The "SysSoft" company will continue to work far off in June and, perhaps, all summer period, reported TAdviser her HR director Andrey Vilkov.

Oblakoteka will work completely remotely "at least until the end of summer". The company will return to the former mode if the situation allows, to the beginning of a business season, the CEO of Oblakoteka Maxim Zakharenko told TAdviser.

According to the HR director of Izhevsk "Center of High Technologies" (CHT) Ruzili Garayeva, the company does not hurry to return to work from office in complete scale until stabilization of a situation in the world though "in corporate chats continually it is possible to meet wishes of the fastest of "internal reunion".

After all with much lack the atmosphere of office - not only for holding technical actions and discussion of professional questions, but also for simple informal communication, - Garayeva noted

Theoretically all 200 employees of the company can come to office and at a present situation as TsVT is among the systemically important enterprises of the region.

However we selected hybrid option - each employee himself decides what format of work is more preferable to it, Ruzilya Garayeva told

The Maroom company for maintaining an offline component of business before isolation used one of networks of co-workings.

We surely there will return as soon as it becomes safe. In terms we will be guided by the large technology companies which also widely use openspeys spaces. We think, it will be not earlier than July-August, - the CEO of Maroom Alexey Kuzin told TAdviser

Not all Russian IT companies hurry to return the employees to offices in connection with retreat of a pandemic of a coronavirus. (the photo is static.standard.co.uk)

Who the first will return to office

The first after normalization of a situation of the IT company are going to return to office of those employees who in it have a direct need – connected with paper document flow, infrastructure maintenance, sales, office-mendzherov and also those to whom more comfortably to work at office, than in house conditions.

Employees from administration who should work with paper documents will come to work in office first of all, those who for some reason have difficulties with the organization of work of the house. As the IT companies are carried to the enterprises of a continual loop, at urgent need employees could leave in office and during high alert, - Alexey Badayev informed TAdviser

According to Sergey Razumovsky, in office employees who are engaged in service of internal infrastructure will leave the first. In a present situation they are in office periodically, as required, in connection with technology features of work with some equipment. Among the first in office testers and developers can also appear.

In office those who were tired to work from the house and to whom long time living conditions or family circumstances prevent to be "on an udalenka" will leave the first, - Andrey Vilkov told TAdviser

Plans for reduction of office space

The IT companies which are going to continue to work in the summer in the remote mode have different plans concerning the office space.

Corus Consulting Group already refused 20% of office space. However, according to Alexander Semyonov, their reduction does not bring damage to comfort of staff of the company.

We understand that on an udalyonka there will be not all: many people last in office: someone lacks communication, it is just not so convenient to someone to work from the house. Therefore we prepare office for return of employees already now: let's organize new options of seating taking into account need of distancing, we take measures which will help not to allow risk of infection, - Alexander Semyonov explained TAdviser

Also Dr.Web is going to reduce office space. According to Boris Sharov, the company surely will apply the released money "with bigger advantage".

In Raidix there are plans for reduction of office space too, however, in the company consider that real-life communication between colleagues, after all, is invaluable.

Even if working function can be performed far off, then it is better for communication to carry out personally. But the new view on the organization of office space, of course, will arise. Perhaps, from strictly fixed jobs it will be possible to pass to universal, by an example of co-working of spaces with the separated infrastructure, thereby having reduced the general office space, - Sergey Razumovsky assumed

In Maroom.ru for several months of isolation there was a new format of work at the expense of which the company will reduce the needs for office by a third, Alexey Kuzin told TAdviser.

In companies "Baikal Electronics", "System Software", "Crypto Pro", "Cloud Computing" and Akronis Infozashchita office space are not going to be reduced.

If we practice more "hybrid" mode house/office, all the same at employees the workplace at office will remain. Moreover, during remote work we opened branch in Innopolis, employed in it five new employees, work takes its course, - Alexey Badayev told TAdviser

In Rostelecom there are no plans of reduction of office space, however in the company gather to leave a part of employees on completely and partially remote mode.

On survey results which are regularly carried out to the companies more than a third of employees of Rostelecom are completely satisfied with work on an udalenka and would like to continue to work also or partially after the end of self-isolation. Leaving on a complete or partial udalenka of employees after a pandemic will provide more attractive working conditions for personnel. Reduction of office spaces because of transition to an udalenka is not planned. As employees anyway should come sometimes to the jobs, especially to those which will select partially remote operation mode, - informed TAdviser in Rostelecom

Similar plans at Code of Security.

We do not plan reduction of office space because the regular gain of the staff of the company always forced us to look for the new areas and, strictly speaking, it was rather burning issue for us. Now we will try to solve it, having partially left some employees on remote work. On the other hand, collectives without exception of all divisions are so amicable and rallied that without loss of efficiency we can have it and it will not turn out, and then, in the future, we will deliberate over increase in office spaces again, - the commercial director of Code of Security company Fedor Dbar told TAdviser

In plans of TsVT company to open a number of new offices.

The long-term development strategy TsVT as assumed the multiple growth of number of employees to a pandemic, so saves this rate and now when the situation is gradually stabilized. At the same time we do not exclude a possibility of expansion of the state due to hiring of remote workers. When in the company interaction processes are built, the actual location of high-class specialists is not so important, - Ruzilya Garayeva is sure

According to her, in the company also understand that the relation to office as to the place in which the person should be 40 hours a week exchanged. For this reason and existing, and new premises the company will reformat - on a part of squares will be created a co-working space. According to an idea, in them employees who will not need permanent office workplace will be able to accommodate.

The IS-Systems company is also going to increase the office space.

I think, now for this purpose the most profitable time. The office for us first of all not work location, but the assembly point allowing in comfortable conditions to resolve the collected issues which anyway require personal contact i.e. to remain not a small group of removed singles, but an effective command, - the technical director of IS-Systems Mikhail Firsov noted

The IT companies to which it is not sat at office any more

Within the survey conducted by TAdviser a position to leave longer employees on the remote mode it was not the most popular. The vast majority of the polled IT companies as it became clear, are going to display in office of the employees after official date of removal of isolation, calculating that it will be in June, or are guided for June-July, without making a start from this date.

According to the HR director of New cloud technologies company Ekaterina Dementieva, to the current situation the organization almost did not work with remote workers therefore for the company it is really new experience of creation of processes.

After general isolation ends or approximate terms of its termination will become at least clear, we will consider the possibility of an exit of employees in office. During the quarantine someone realized what to work from the house turns out more effective, and for someone these two months became this testing. We are ready to consider different options of further interaction of employees, - Ekaterina Dementieva told TAdviser.

The HR director of SearchInform Kirill Medvedev assured TAdviser that in the majority of the cities, including Moscow, the staff of the company for 100% is ready to return to offices since June 1. Where restrictive measures are more tough, according to him, the remote format of work will last for at least two weeks longer.

Conceptually we would like that all offices resumed work as before since the beginning of summer. Our position – it is necessary to leave, - Kirill Medvedev told TAdviser.

At the same time, he noted that a part of employees of the company and to isolation mode constantly worked in the remote mode. According to Medvedev, generally it is specialists whose profile allows to carry out tasks completely online – developers, testers. Besides, in some cities about 1-2 employees therefore there offices to it are inexpedient to be opened work for the company.

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