In Germany, the group provides Ukrainian refugees with WiFi and free mobile phone cards. In Russia, he courts employees with “ping-pong”.
(Photo: imago images/Marc John)
Hamburg “Impressive”, “Highly innovative”, “Top IT talents with the best IT know-how”. After a trip to Russia in October 2021, Telekom boss Timotheus Höttges came out as a fan of his employees in Saint Petersburg. There and at two other locations in the country, the subsidiaries IT Solutions and Global Business Solutions employ more than 2000 people.
The Russian team is “incredibly close to business” and is working on “some of the group’s most important IT projects”, Höttges enthused in a post for the group’s intranet. This includes strategically essential projects such as IT systems for fiber optic expansion. In the medium term, the number of employees in Russia should increase by a good 50 percent, it was said at the time.
Only six months later, it is no longer possible to think about it. The attack by the Russian military on Ukraine turns the highly praised location of St. Petersburg from a beacon of hope to a risk for Telekom.
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