Compared eith other technologies like the toilet or ehe washing machine, the Internet had not make the life of people materially better not even close to the same level.
So far I'm not sure, but maybe they also need to report on international employees to prevent discriminatory practices of brazillian companies outside.
It's a brazillian company? In Brazil, big companies need to report statistics on average and medium salaries for employees segregated by autodeclared gender and race and if the government finds racial and gender inequalities can fine and intervene on them.
In my last job, as a BI analyst I had to do that calculation, but couldn't trick HR to send me the base with the real values. They send me a mock file to write the python script with it, and then ran it private with the real data.
Source: The Incel Journal of Natural Sciences.