Where i used to just walk to the other room and ask something from my collegue i now need to message them in our internal and hope they notice it. Getting answers for questions have turned from 5 minute thing to 10-40 minute things.
Those rude shoulder-tap interruptions may have only taken you 5 minutes, but they ruined half an hour of productivity to the person you were interrupting. This is the whole reason people can be more productive at home without annoying bosses blathering at them.
The immediate interruption is good for management, but bad for the company overall.
That’s why we still have Jira/email.
Critical importance: slack/in person
Can wait but important: high importance email, P1 Jira
Not important: Low impotance email, P2 Jira
Thanks for typing out ny thought about this. /a SW dev.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah every programmer I know loves not being exposed to the manager who just “has a question” or just want to “check in”.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah. Coders get slack messages. Only exception is if something is truly fucked and it needs to be fixed asap and for some strange reason i notice it before they do. Mosty happens when they push from test to production.
We have biweekly check ins with code team and thats enough.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anyone in focus on anyone will have 20m ruined at minimum by your 5m interruption. It doesn’t have to be coders. Your 5m interruption is one big reason a lot of people love wfh.