For #2, how are you checking if they’re busy or not? I got frustrated a lot in office because someone would see me spinning in my chair, incorrectly assume I wasn’t busy instead of thinking deeply about a problem, and come up to break my concentration because “I wasn’t busy.”
If you don’t have a team working agreement or regular conversations about communication patterns both in-person and remote you’re possibly contributing to the problem. I prefer Slack messages because I can consume them when I need to and ignore them when I need to focus. If someone absolutely needs my attention they can Slack/Zoom call me to break my focus.
For #2, how are you checking if they’re busy or not? I got frustrated a lot in office because someone would see me spinning in my chair, incorrectly assume I wasn’t busy instead of thinking deeply about a problem, and come up to break my concentration because “I wasn’t busy.”
If you don’t have a team working agreement or regular conversations about communication patterns both in-person and remote you’re possibly contributing to the problem. I prefer Slack messages because I can consume them when I need to and ignore them when I need to focus. If someone absolutely needs my attention they can Slack/Zoom call me to break my focus.
Of course you should also never just say hello.