We're still a little bit early into this remote work experiment for there to be a lot of like hard evidence around the kind of squishy concept of relationships. Amazon recently asked corporate employees to start coming back to the office three days a week and people have been mad. I think it's, you know, the cultural aspects of in person work are something that we can like feel more than we can prove right now. The metaverse isn't really ready to hold a conference call.
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