An employer may prefer to have people in the office, but if they can only hire remote then they may prefer to do it at the offshore rates. I have been in exact

An employer may prefer to have people in the office, but if they can only hire remote then they may prefer to do it at the offshore rates. I have been in exactly this situation many times in recent years. My go-to would have been a team of co-located contractors in London. As soon as WFH became the norm, paying 40-60% of the rates in Eastern Europe or cheaper areas of the UK was a no brainer.