> As to your actual point, it’s horrifying that people need to be told “don’t be distracting”, and that this passes for best-in-class analysis on the subject of

> As to your actual point, it’s horrifying that people need to be told “don’t be distracting”, and that this passes for best-in-class analysis on the subject of business organizations. It's really not best-in-class analysis--that honor probably goes to the Academy of Management Journal[1]. It's a free blog post on a non-peer-reviewed _magazine_'s site. Yes, there is a dynamic that makes paywall journal articles anti-viral, which is why you won't find any at the top of HN. But I do think the article is meant to be helpful, not just inoffensive. As a manager, your peer and everyone above you is interrupt driven. There is some missed deadline or other crisis you are expected to attend do. Even your employees have an oncall function, and we have all these amazing instant messaging tools like Slack. And agile is all about changing the plan a lot, right? Heck, peopleware has a section on overhead intercoms in the office, to give you an idea of how bad it used to be. And extroverts (ie sales and marketing) don't mind interruptions, maybe even thrive on it if they made a promotion to management. It's just not obvious at all for some section of humanity, unfortunate as it is for us engineers. Finally, think about it like this: some employers are putting spyware on employee computers to monitor work from home behavior. That is the audience for this article. Not sure why it's on HN. [1]: https://aom.org/research/journals/journal https://aom.org/research/journals/journal