I think humanity majorly underplays how much success is based on culture. I have a long-held theory that offices don't exist to accomplish work, but to establish social relationships, and that work itself is a secondary product of the office community.

My belief was reinforced when companies switched to remote work, and management at many companies complained that it was difficult to tell who was and wasn't working, when the managers didn't get to watch the workers. Abstracting the social relationship from the results of work will make it easier to judge the work itself, but more difficult to enforce the social relationship. When the abstraction occurred, those who were basing the status of their employees on the social relationship, and not the work output, were especially disadvantaged.