Patrons pay our salary. If they don't see us performing for them, they will take us for granted and replace us with nameless computer nerds. I remember Bob Berring saying once that answering even the humblest directional question is like hitting a home run with very little effort. Sex is good for you. If we have no contact with people, we will die.
Architecture can help.
A balance between the two is ideal. If the office is too close to the desk, however, you will have no privacy and become rather testy. We don't convey information as much as who we are. A wise law professor once told me that it is a myth that education conveys information. We forget details almost immediately upon hearing them.