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Do IT professionals fall in love at work? An interesting question on Valentine’s Day, isn’t it? We asked it to the readers of dev.ua, and collected a lot of interesting stories and a little bit of statistics. We publish the most interesting from the mini-study.

How to unite a team that works mostly remotely is extremely rare? Over the past 5 years, employers have had to change the paradigm of teambuilding, adapting corporate events to the challenges of the time. Nowadays, to feel the team spirit, it is not necessary to rent a facility or prepare a mega-event at your own location. It is enough to competently approach the organization of employees' leisure time online. dev.ua, in a partner material with Englishdom, talks about the most common options for holding online team meetings and the experience of the most successful online events in Ukrainian IT companies.

On February 6, 2024, the Diia.City United alliance was presented, which was created by six founding companies: Ajax Systems, Genesis, MacPaw, monobank, Netpeak Group, and Roosh. At the same time, Natalia Mykolska, an expert in strategic transformations and business globalization and former trade representative — Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade (2015-2019), was announced as the executive director of the alliance. However, the association’s activities began significantly earlier than its presentation — in late summer 2023, when it was officially created. During this period, top managers of the founding companies identified priorities and began looking for a candidate for the role of head of the association. Their choice fell on Natalia Mykolska.

Що читати у 2025-му такого, щоб бути на одній хвилі із керівниками та топами IT-компаній? dev.ua попросив відомих айтівців порадити читачам книгу, яка захопила їхню увагу у 2024-му та точно буде корисною кожному. Нижче — добірка з порадами. Користуйтеся!

A New Year’s gift is a special magic that can bring incredible pleasant emotions to its recipients. dev.ua asked top managers of Ukrainian IT companies what their best New Year’s gift was. Marina Tereshchenko, Internal Communications Director ZONE3000, Vlad Shimov, Managing Director Capgemini Engineering and Anna Halimon, Fulfilment Director at Ciklum, shared their memories.

In recent years, many companies have postponed corporate holidays due to the war in order to save money or redirect the budget to support the army. This year, the traditions of celebrating the New Year are being revived and reformatted. dev.ua found out how Ukrainian IT companies celebrated the arrival of the New Year and what they gave their employees.