Absolutely. I've worked with dozens of remote teams in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, and every single one of them has produced absolute garbage work product, and the project management is very much CYA and do-as-little-as-possible. On paper it's nice to give them a list of things to be completed overnight, but in actuality it's never done.

Random web service times out once? Don't do any more work on anything, even stuff that doesn't use that service. Bill the full 8 hours though, of course.

Have a question about some tangentially related business process? Stop work until we get an answer, bill the full 8.

Oh, someone is actually checking our commits? The guy that wrote that is on vacation, sorry.

Oh, someone is actually checking our commits? Delete and recommit entire files, now it's impossible to see the volume of work complete.

At my current gig we picked up about 40 offshore developers and ended up dropping every one of them within the first year. We're still remote but US only at this point.