How do you influence your company to be less about constant interruptions?
I love where I work however sometimes I feel like our culture is about constantly interrupting people on the only way to get anything done is by tapping somebody on the shoulder. Naturally this culture had a feeds on itself because I'm already interrupted the more of the interruption is necessary to get anyone's attention. I feel like this is unsustainable but in the open Office environment with no remote workers becomes a bit difficult to enforce this behavior. What are ways that you found to do this
Try working earlier when less people are online. It helps.
I'd suggest having more group meetings to address all these interruptions at one place and time.
An interruption to talk about interruptions? Noooooooooo ๐ฉ. j/k, as with anything, more open communication could definitely help.
I suggest study grammar and punctuation. That might make you better understood.
Headphones are usually a signal that a person is trying to get work done. In that situation a Slack message or email is a way to get a message to that person. If your colleagues are violating that signal all the time there's probably something screwy about your work culture there.
Yeah I do think they help, however people still interrupt you just not quite as often.
We recently moved to an open floor plan and the interruption issue is a nightmare. No idea on a solution but I will try to make sure my next job is at a company that doesnโt use this (remote if necessary)
I feel for you ๐
Discuss the issue with your team. If that doesn't work, then train them to do the right thing. When someone interrupts you, tell them you are busy but will look into it if they post details in the relevant GitHub issue or project Slack channel etc. Do not let them go into detail at that moment, because then they will think "I've passed on this responsibility". If you let that happen, then you're enabling the undesirable behavior. Definitely do not interrupt people yourself. You should model the correct behavior. I.e. lead by example.
Very good advice. I often well interrupt people because they will never get back to me because someone will be interrupting then instead. Which makes me part of the problem doesn't it ๐ณ.
When you figure this out let me know, Iโm honestly surprised at the amount of work I do get done with constant meetings, sitting at an open desk with 100 conversations going on around me and interruptions from coworkers
Open Office is the new standard. Interesting seeing a lot of people walking around more, some on phone, most looking annoyed, those not walking in group going from point A to B. Those in groups look happy so maybe this will drive those not happy to leave including those not social.
You lost me. ๐ค
Open office seems to make those social outgoing people happier. Those can not tolerate the multiple conversations around seem to have to leave own desk.
You guys are fucked. Leadership is super inexperienced at podium. Jk. But I would assume the lack of exp from your ceo and execs has a lot to do with it.
Somehow I don't feel your is a problem, although our CEO is pretty green perhaps, however many other people in the executive team are more experienced. Also I feel that open offices are like the standard now so I don't feel like we're alone in this.