As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a

As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south? Outsourcing was happening long before the pandemic. If a company wanted to outsource work to cheaper devs they've been able to for decades. There's nothing about WFH that changes that.