This is a petition to whoever decides office space on the third floor for space to be found for the Platform PMs, instead of 2 floors down. Here are some reasons why:

- it's absolutely awesome for a developer, or a product owner or any other stakeholder to be able to wander casually over to their PM's desk to mention a request or concern they have which might not otherwise have been worth a two-floor trek.

 - verbal conversations are probably worth 10 emails in terms of the benefits of communication - understanding each other and making decisions together.

- the resulting fewer bugs, errors and misunderstandings, or missed catches and relays, will *definitely* have a significant impact over time in terms of business value (revenue/cost).

- there does seem to be space, so we *could* move but it may have been decided that the space is better allocated to other company staff - but if the entire rest of the web product / development operation is up there, does it make sense to move someone from outside that operation into the space at the expense of the PMs?

- the web product / development operation is a *big* team - it's hard for everyone to get to know each other, especially new joiners, if we're not co-located.

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