Re: Please share the secret
AC:
<Please share the secret and tell me how you get in the zone in the first place in an open plan office with Lync, Outlook, and Teams constantly popping up notifications about inconsequential shit. Or is it just me who has this problem?>
Can't help you there. I just start writing / reading the code and I can quickly get lost in it.
Been doing this coding stint >20yrs. Never had a problem. The only problems I've had is with something like, for example, an AC ceiling unit wafting cold air on my neck, bright lights etc.
Before my coding career I was an electrician working in noisy and sometimes unpleasant, dangerous environments with perhaps what you would call boisterous tradesmen; veteran tradesmen most of them. They still did high quality work. It's just how you are 'brought' up and what you think is 'normal'.
I don't mind interruptions but that does not mean I like them. Sometime's I have welcomed interuptions. Hasn't everybody?
Before I interupt someone I do look at them to evaluate them and their situation against the reason why I want or need to do so.
All these 'scientific' studies just seem to blow with the wind. Compaines are not going to change their office layouts on one study.