Are You Keeping Your Ucranian Colleagues Productive?

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There is a higher cost to all this than navy had budgeted going into this year. Yet again, we're right now focused on the urgency, and so we're absolutely spending more money than we would hav otherwise. But our perspective ives a much greater to not helping or ucranian colleagues then helping them. And you know, if we can help them and keep them productive, it's good for our customers, and i's good for us.

“Don't let the roadblocks get in the way when there are people who need you desperately.” Eric Friedrichsen, the CEO of Emburse, a B2B software provider, has navigated around risks and financial costs to meet the needs of tech contractors based in Ukraine. Part of that response includes the company’s offer to relocate people and families to Spain, where Emburse’s European headquarters is located. The company’s executives are also personally funding housing costs for colleagues taking refuge in Poland. These choices haven’t come without obstacles for Emburse. But as Friedrichsen explains, the benefits are moral, communal, and even quantifiable for the business.

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