Comment: Why the most valuable workplace connections are built offline

In these hybrid times, the real value of the office lies in the offline relationships, informal learning and everyday exchanges that help organisations learn, adapt and belong.We often think of networking as something formal: a room, a name badge, a diary invitation. But the most valuable work networks are rarely built that way. They are formed in smaller moments — from a graduate asking a senior colleague a question without feeling exposed, to two teams discovering a shared problem while