Curious to see as it seems to be a trend lately
For #2, how are you checking if they’re busy or not? I got frustrated a lot in office because someone would see me spinning in my chair, incorrectly assume I wasn’t busy instead of thinking deeply about a problem, and come up to break my concentration because “I wasn’t busy.”
If you don’t have a team working agreement or regular conversations about communication patterns both in-person and remote you’re possibly contributing to the problem. I prefer Slack messages because I can consume them when I need to and ignore them when I need to focus. If someone absolutely needs my attention they can Slack/Zoom call me to break my focus.
Of course you should also never just say hello.
1000% agreed on no hello. Got constant "hello"s from many team members. They’d even wait for me to reply before sending messages… Only figured that out after my boss brought it up in a 1:1 … I just thought they realized the answer to the question.
I’m not talking about “sitting in your chair thinking” times. I’m talking about those micro BS conversations that people have around the office just to relieve from the monotony and try to bond. “Oh I spent last night playing this game/watching this show/ etc.” or right after a meeting.
