Globalisation - really! Then why move cubes?

We are gonna be involved with a new exercise at work. Relocation. Not as in relocation that I am gonna be closer to work, rather, it is intraoffice relocation, and if I am correct, I would have to travel, 20ft more everyday. As Dilbert might put it, I am being moved around within the corporate zoo. So you would ask, why I make noise around it? For those who might not know, every animal in a zoo, marks his/her own territory. I do not want to go into further details about this:) Similarly, once assigned a cube, I think of it as my home. We personalize it, We adore it. Now imagine, the landlord coming over and asking us to move for reasons I do not necessarily comprehend and understand. I was told, the reorg is to make the team better and give it a sense of working together. My dumb mind, really asks the question, don't we work across timezones? So does it really matter where we sit? Is it really gonna make any difference ? Shouldn't we be concentrating more on non-direct, non-face-to-face communication, like working on phone conversations and email in the currently globalised techie world. Then why, why? My simple mind does not agree necessarily, but nor do I have the clout to disagree. So, I fold under pressure and vent through my blog:)