If you really care about this person as a human, just tell her to do what she can when she has power, and when she’s able to evacuate help her out however you can. I think it’s funny that you seem to be more focused on the work she can do but I’m assuming you do care about her well being first and foremost.
I agree… focussing on her output when she’s enduring a war situation is just heartless. Consider it sick leave. She’s incapacitated by circumstance, behave accordingly.
I think you are not fully understanding the situation, so making inappropriate judgement. War is not a sick leave and it is wrong to make such comparison. She is not incapacitated, neither she is looking for an escape route.
Currently there are many thousands of people in Ukraine looking for any type of the job. They have chosen to stay or were forced to stay because men cannot leave the country. Some of them are learning programming and coming to job market as engineers. If hiring someone is a way to help and a win-win situation (at lower budget you can offer same netto salary as in Germany), I use this opportunity. There’s only as much as we can do to help, so yes, now, given the circumstances, I focus on making them succeed on the job, because that is the best I can do both for them and for our business.
A person in a position of power over her perceives their options as being a dichotomy between ensuring she can continue to produce output or terminating her contract. This is the crux of the matter that I am not misunderstanding. My “inappropriate judgement” is that this is at the very least heartless and tone-deaf. Let’s take it a step further and hypothesis what might happen if her equipment is destroyed or network connectivity goes down and makes it impossible for her to be productive? She becomes unproductive so heavy heart he ends her contract? Meanwhile they struggle to keep her useful so they can keep her compensation flowing?
She needs to succeed at the job or she gets axed. Than’s the crux of it. Given the circumstances I repeat it’s totally heartless and tone deaf. If you’re OK with that that’s your problem, and I feel a bit sorry for you.
What is your suggestion exactly? I see you are in the mood for lecturing on morality, but what is the constructive solution that you offer?
I repeat, the contract was signed during the war with the person that does not want to leave the country. Do I need to just pay everyone I hire this way and not expect them to work, as you suggest?
