[Graffur]

One thing I have noticed when WFH is that random calls are more disruptive than someone calling to your desk. When someone calls to your desk you're already in that environment. When someone calls you when WFH they're entering your environment - if that makes sense.

I also notice that status update meetings seem to be more common.

[silicon2401]

I disagree. I hate being at the office and at the mercy of whoever wants to walk by and talk to me. Even if I have an excuse for not talking, I'm still disrupted. At home, all interactions are filtered through my laptop, which is more predictable and manageable.

[TheDudeMan]

You can choose to not answer (not always, but sometimes).

[teddyh]

“Meyerhof was about to pass on down the list when the summons came.

It wasn’t really a summons. No one could summon a Grand Master. It was only a message that Division Head Trask would like very much to see Grand Master Meyerhof if Grand Master Meyerhof could spare him the time.

Meyerhof might, with impunity, have tossed the message to one side and continued with whatever he was doing. He was not subject to discipline.

On the other hand, were he to do that, they would continue to bother him—oh, very respectfully, but they would continue to bother him.”

­— Jokester, Isaac Asimov, 1956 <https://archive.org/details/Infinity_v01n06_1956-12_LennyS-c...>

[Graffur]

True, and I do if its an unprompted call with no obvious reason.