It goes like this: Someone does a study that concludes that every outsourced IT worker saves the company $40,000.
The corporate office decrees that at least 50% of all headcounts are to be eventually 'offshored' to low-cost countries (read India). They also demand that $4 million is to be saved right away.
100 US workers are promptly fired and 100 offshored Indians are expected to replace them. Given that the Indians can't do sh_t from Bangalore, work is made for them. For those unfamiliar with how offshored headcounts work, it's like this: they won't do a thing unless it's on a 'script' and they won't deviate one iota from that script. Given this, they are asked to do stuff that computers could easily be scripted to do, but now we got humans doing them - like 'manually' notify the US employees when the computers issue some alerts. It's very much the same model for using the 'migrants' on the farm - have cheap humans do work that machines would normally do. Then, the remaining US employees fix the problems.
It's a huge success. The US employees stretch themselves to cover the work their 100 fired coworkers were doing. Of course, something's got to give. They spend less time developing and deploying automated solutions but that's okay because we got the cheap Indians now.
The corporate office is ecstatic - $4 million is saved. Now, the corporate office has another brilliant idea: why not save $8 million. It's easy as pie: hire 100 more Indians.