It’s about incentives.

Direct impact: Outsourcing breeds a culture of unverified and verified-just-once remote work.

Indirect impact: Outsourcing is a cost-driven effort where after a certain level of competence, the bottom-line is the only measurable metric that matters so it’s a race to the bottom with patchwork efforts to “fix” issues like OP.

Making domestic options cost-equivalent with punitive outcomes for hiring NK workers.

This is about in-house employees. Not outsourcing.

My mistake in term. I meant “off-shoring”.

Otherwise, I stand by my argument. The support infrastructure we built to support remote work and offshore teams have made this an easy attack channel.

How is it off-shoring if they are hiring "US citizens living in the US"?

Oh, so they’re interviewing in-person?

Or perhaps, off-shoring support and infrastructure is what enabled and made-normal this sort of remote interviewing and work in the first place.