Benevolent globalism? (move your employees to a lower-standard-of-living country)

InformationWeek - IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India

IBM has laid off roughly 4,000 US workers and has made an offer called 'Project Match' whereby employees IBM would otherwise want to keep (but has since laid off) can move to Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Czech Republic, Russia, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates etc. The employees would receive moving and visa assistance but be paid according to the 'prevailing norms' of the country they relocate to-- substantially less.