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Its extremely rare for someone to just open your closed door at the office. Its a daily occurrence at home.

The only closeable door at my office is the bathroom stall, so 100% agree, it's super rare for someone to open it.

If you have a door you can close at the office you must be upper management. Everyone else is still in cubes if they are lucky or in open seating plans more likely.

OK, then change it to "someone tapping you on the shoulder while you are wearing headphones at your desk at work is rare".

It definitely isn't at some of the places I've worked.

Please tell me these wonderful non-distracting workplaces you've worked at because you are speaking absolute fiction to my ears.

Or stand in front of you and wave to get your attention

The larger tech companies give everyone an office. Microsoft started the trend back in the 80's.

Wrong.

Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, … are (essentially) open plan.

My experience at google was the cube walls not even being tall enough to do anything when you were sitting.

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