This type of "chance encounter" is a common rebuttal but instead of planning your office layout on the hope of occasionally catching a mis-communication maybe i

This type of "chance encounter" is a common rebuttal but instead of planning your office layout on the hope of occasionally catching a mis-communication maybe it would be better to improve how things are communicated so these "faulty assumptions" don't happen (and/or are caught sooner...independent of luck/chance).