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The point we branched from was to ask what specifically generated the new ideas, out of spontaneous social situations in work places.

There’s definitely roles which have to be in person, and those people should come to office.

Everyone else - they don’t need to in the same way sales people would.

Not all conversations lead to insights, what’s going on then?

There’s some specific things happening to lead to the productivity benefit. Because this is what it is in the end, it’s productivity we care about, not socializing.

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> There’s definitely roles which have to be in person, and those people should come to office.

For Eng Mangers to do their job effectively, they need engineers in office too. I discussed that in detail in a sibling comment to your parent one.