Nothing is stopping them, they already have offices there or hire candidates remote and are growing. The IT market in those areas always booms whenever there's

Nothing is stopping them, they already have offices there or hire candidates remote and are growing. The IT market in those areas always booms whenever there's an economic downturn in the west as executives lay people off in the expensive locations and move their jobs to cheaper locations abroad to save costs. On paper this short term move makes them look like Rockstars to shareholders since they reduced operational costs with the stroke of a pen without decreasing profits. What happens long term is not their problem since they won't be around if the shit hits the fan, but that's not always the case. A friend of mine leads a team of devs in Vietnam and he's super happy with their output so assuming all offshore work is automatically poor quality is in bad faith.