Moving out of 'shouting' distance for me in my office actually helped me considerably. That little bit of extra distance filtered out many trivial interruption

Moving out of 'shouting' distance for me in my office actually helped me considerably. That little bit of extra distance filtered out many trivial interruptions. Maybe your teammates and managers are good about it, but I feel like many are not. That combined with the noise machines open offices can be it can get pretty bad. Also some people can get bad with the shoulder surfing. To create that 'we're in the same room' experience, you need to leave G+ hangouts on the entire time. You can't just initiate calls and then end them and do it several times a day.