[Foobar8568]

Consider yourself lucky if your co-workers could connect these two meetings/subjects...

[52-6F-62]

They're smart people, so I'm sure that's not the issue.

My complaints are probably less about co-located offices and more just corporate cruft.

[crustacean]

I think you’re right to connect “co-location” with “cruft”, though. “Co-location for the sake of the flourishing of cruft” is a management philosophy.