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All these sad people working in offices that need to defend their focus. I will never do that again.

The price of interacting with people in person

I downvoted this because it is really pejorative to call people sad in this way for doing their jobs. Though I do agree that it stinks sometimes to be focused and have people walk by and cause context shifts.

Regarding the original topic, I mostly work from home and even there like pomodoro timers because they help me focus. Set it for 25 minutes and focus until the time is up, take 5, then get back to it. Works great for me!

I'm planning to use this at home to defend my focus from myself! That idea definitely goes both ways.

Some people actually like being in an office.

I wouldn't mind working hybrid and going to an office 2-3 days/week as long as the commute was under 20 minutes.

I struggle to imagine the office where this is respected.

Fair point given how poorly I worded it. Maybe I could try again.

Yes it's awesome to collaborate with people but if you find a workplace that ignores human factors of knowledge workers, and deters and deep focus, that is a negative signal about that employer. Egs:

    * a noisy, open, "pit" with low/no partitions, where sales guys yell into speakerphones right near people heads down
    * there are no "focus booths" to make private calls or work
    * meeting load is scattered across the day so there's no way to block out working time on calendar
    * adversarial IT dept

This kind of environment does not promote work and also increases stress due to context switching (citation needed) and people walking behind you all day in peripheral view (seen a study somewhere). If you find a place like this, your health and career might be better served elsewhere.