I think it will have an impact but not as much as you're implying. Where companies can offshore, they may already have. If a massive saving could have been mad

I think it will have an impact but not as much as you're implying. Where companies can offshore, they may already have. If a massive saving could have been made offshoring, there was nothing to stop them before. Maybe those companies that were reluctant because of the worries about remote workforces may be influenced by the success of the WFH experiment so I concede that point. I think this will have an impact but I predict it won't be massive. The other constraining factor on this is that offshoring often doesn't work that well whenever I've seen it applied to software at least. Maybe it's just my own experience but in certain professions it seems it's good to have a majority of the workforce being fluent or near-fluent in the company's main language and relatively integrated into the culture. This can be achieved with people in different countries but its not just a straight forward question of replacing people.