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Re:The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, ve... by jamaicahest on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:54AM (#17520792)
That's a nice sentiment, however a lot of people have notifications turned on in both their email client and in Slack, so you end up interrupting them anyway.

There was a study done on the interruption effect of e-mail https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/1328726018000...

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Re:The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, ve... by thirdsun on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:08AM (#17520845)
While true, there's a significant difference: It's very easy to ignore a notification - the same can't be said about a verbal/face to face interruption.
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