Anecdotally I've seen more well established companies looking for investment move entire floors of people into another floor for 6-7 hours to give the appearance of busy hardworking w/e

I remember that we didn't even plug the phones in.

these people were being paid £55k (a lot) each, to basically look pretty.

seems like a massive waste of man hours to me- but, I suppose I'm a sysadmin not a sales/CEO