Headphones for background noise/noisy colleagues. If it gets too loud, simply ask the noisiest to pipe down or take their conversation off the floor plate, usually quiets things down.
Actual interruptions from people from other teams: try to dissuade drive-bys through asking them to schedule a meet, drop an email etc. Put them off enough times they’ll resort to proper channels.
I work remote so recently dumping Skype for text chat and taking to a Slack channel instead has really helped. Can chat real time but also not if you choose. Slack also allows me more access to team chat/banter that I didn’t get from Skype.
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Headphones for background noise/noisy colleagues. If it gets too loud, simply ask the noisiest to pipe down or take their conversation off the floor plate, usually quiets things down.
Actual interruptions from people from other teams: try to dissuade drive-bys through asking them to schedule a meet, drop an email etc. Put them off enough times they’ll resort to proper channels.
I work remote so recently dumping Skype for text chat and taking to a Slack channel instead has really helped. Can chat real time but also not if you choose. Slack also allows me more access to team chat/banter that I didn’t get from Skype.