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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by garciasn on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:06AM (#38488297)
Sr. Director; team is entirely remote. Company is half remote with 1 day per week required for non-remote employees.

My team is highly technical and generally requires deep thinking and little interruptions to make progress. The single best thing that remote work has done is stop the endless interruptions via shoulder tap at the desk.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by taway1874 on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:22PM (#38490262)
Glad to hear! How do your engineers deal with impromptu messages in Teams/Slack disrupting their deep work?
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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by garciasn on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:22PM (#38494462)
It's a lot easier to put yourself in Do Not Disturb via whatever team chat option you're using than having to hide from someone tapping your shoulder at your desk.
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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by LtWorf on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:53AM (#38497951)
I wrote localslackirc :)

I basically have the ability to completely block certain people, quietly ignore channels until I get mentioned directly (@here gets ignored), and cause the abusers of @here to not generate a notification for me.

I also don't see gifs and reactions, which is a big help in not getting distracted.

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