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You are a saint. I have a near retirement age coworker in the same office who mutters a lot while working and from time to time will just start talking loudly to people across the room. It's one of the main reasons why I got a noise-canceling headset.

That's a nice sentiment, however a lot of people have notifications turned on in both their email client and in Slack, so you end up interrupting them anyway.

There was a study done on the interruption effect of e-mail https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/1328726018000...

While true, there's a significant difference: It's very easy to ignore a notification - the same can't be said about a verbal/face to face interruption.

I do this as well. Mostly I want a record of what was discussed because how will I remember otherwise.