At my previous job (which I just quit), it was basically impossible to focus when I was at the office.
We used both Slack and Skype for Business, so whenever I set do not disturb on Slack, people would start annoying me on Skype, even if I had do not disturb there too.
It was also not easy because we were a distributed team. Whenever I put my headphones on and started listening to music, my colleagues in-office would understand and (try to) leave me alone. However, even then I got a wave every 5-10 minutes to say "Hey I need you a sec".
For the remote colleagues it was even worse because they would spam me on Slack, Skype, e-mail and if that failed they would contact a colleague in the office I was at to tell me to check my DMs.
Basically the only way to focus on my work was to work from home and turn off my e-mail and chat clients.
Starting my new job soon, hopefully it's a bit more rest and quiet there :)
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At my previous job (which I just quit), it was basically impossible to focus when I was at the office.
We used both Slack and Skype for Business, so whenever I set do not disturb on Slack, people would start annoying me on Skype, even if I had do not disturb there too.
It was also not easy because we were a distributed team. Whenever I put my headphones on and started listening to music, my colleagues in-office would understand and (try to) leave me alone. However, even then I got a wave every 5-10 minutes to say "Hey I need you a sec".
For the remote colleagues it was even worse because they would spam me on Slack, Skype, e-mail and if that failed they would contact a colleague in the office I was at to tell me to check my DMs.
Basically the only way to focus on my work was to work from home and turn off my e-mail and chat clients.
Starting my new job soon, hopefully it's a bit more rest and quiet there :)