Also as one tries to take a higher level view of the office, one of the conclusions could be that up until now the primary goal of the office was to offer shared access to some central resource as it was impossible to offer this resource (wahtever that might be) outside of some central location. Now given the global connectivity this shared resource(s) are most often avaialbe globaly as well, and the question becomes evident more and more each day as to why keep the office anymore...Why do the 'kolhoz' if everybody can have their own farm now.