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Re:Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] by itronitron on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:51AM (#25889670)
A close friend of mine has a coworker who calls them whenever they are not in meetings (shows up as online in whatever chat thingy their organization uses.) and wastes at least two hours of their time everyday.

Are there strategies that fully remote companies take to limit that type of time wasting?

Re:Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] by j4yav on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:00AM (#25889716)
Generally, remote companies prefer async work. GitLab has a great guide on how to get started, and I'm also building an app (https://asyncgo.com). Other founders are building different tools with different approaches but the same goal in mind as well.

Basically you want to move as much focused work as you can to async collaboration and save realtime for more freeform, relaxed communication. It's more efficient and also less draining to work that way.

Re:Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] by mbrodersen on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:28PM (#25912141)
The strategy is to not reply to anything they write.