My employer implemented SAFe several months ago. It was wildly unpopular. Now they have just announced that all developers (a few hundred people) will be laid off. All development work will be outsourced to a company in India.

There are internal whispers that SAFe was implemented in order to prepare for the off-shoring. The reasoning is that SAFe is ineffective for a company with their own trusted developers, but perfect for controlling the delivery of an external, faraway actor.

We only have one anecdatum to go on here, so I'm wondering if this is a trend or not? Has anyone else experienced that their employer implemented SAFe before off-shoring development work?