The resigned me would accept that DND mode because somehow it would be made hard to work without this software, possibly with HR involved.
The naive me would think there's going to be something better or that people would actually respect that.
The cynical experienced me wants a progressively higher level of pain delivered before you can call someone in DND mode.
Re:Building a walkie-talkie for remote work
by jiofih on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:33AM
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They also mention that what finally made it feel nice is automatically setting DND mode when there is a calendar event (including any “focus time” blocks you create).
A big problem is that many people will ultimately ignore DND anyway.
There's a section on setting manual statuses, including one specific example of "focussing - do not disturb". The animated screengrab below suggests that if someone wants to contact you with such a status set they will get a window informing them and the option to bother you anyway. Not sure how special you would want your handling, but something is definitely there. Though it isn't really clear to me if the example in the screengrab is based on a status or on a calendar entry.
I do agree that this isn't something I would want to work with, and as I wrote elsewhere, if my company had this I would set it to perpetual DND or just not run the software at all.