Yeah. One of my favorite things about working remote is that people can't do this to me. It's a feature, not a bug.
If it happened every five minutes that's a different story.
This can happen on Slack or whatever too, but with much less friction. I'm not ignoring teammates for days - I just want to be able to take 10 minutes or whatever to reach a reasonable place to context-switch versus being forced to do so right now.
> I can hop back into "the flow" pretty much immediately.
I envy you, but I very much cannot do this. If I'm working on something of sufficient complexity, I'm going to lose at least 15 minutes every time I'm forced to make a substantive context-switch. It's a huge drain for me.
Or if I’m already on DND? Ignore, and create an appointment for later.
End of the day, it’s all about the culture of your workplace. No one here really understands that. I’ve been interrupted more during remote work at some companies than when in person at others. It’s entirely culture dependent.
If you get fired for doing that sort of thing, the company is doing you a favor.
So uh no. Can’t jump on a zoom real quick, I’m doing work.
10 might actually be 2 hours, but whatever.
Like security, the human chain will always be the weakest link here. If you don't have backbone to stand up for your own time, that's on you - not the remote work inherently IMO.
I don't see what he said as lacking communication. It's enhancing it by allowing them to "schedule" it according to their workflow.
Very rarely does anything actually need an immediate response, and when it does, just call the person.