If it was that easy it would’ve happened already. And software engineers jobs would have moved first due to savings and low effort and low infrastructure changes required.
40% of IT work is already outsourced and that’s a number that is rapidly growing and that’s only over a decade and a half. It doesn’t even take into account foreign employees that now just work remotely.
Sort of. There's a lot of outsourced work. It doesn't appear to have cannibalized the onshore work in a significant way.
Tell that to the current SE labor market though it may be unrelated.
why does Meta pay engineers $400k when there’s somebody offshore willing to do it for $35/hr?
hmm…
For a long time the answer was they needed those people to physically come into the office.