Arguably anyone that could outsource to very low cost centres has already tried to outsource there and many have learned (expensive) lessons from it. What seem

Arguably anyone that could outsource to very low cost centres has already tried to outsource there and many have learned (expensive) lessons from it. What seems to work: Geographically distributed but autonomous product-dev centers, with remote workers aligned within a certain timezone. What doesn't seem to work: Outsourcing pure dev work to timezones with no overlap. I don't believe the above will change even if things become more remote-friendly. Perhaps we'll see more dev centers pop up to service the needs / wants / cultural or language asynchronicity of a given region, but that would lend more toward expansion than cost reduction. This also resonates with the approaches being discussed that I've read and heard first hand from company leaders during COVID.