[hnzix]

At least give me a high partition so I don't have to watch my cow orker sloppily eating food with their mouth open and gesticulating wildly all day.

I can put on noise cancelling headphones but I can't visually block out physical shenanigans, my monkey brain is tracking for threats.

[scarface74]

Noise cancelling headphones will help ambient noise. But it won’t help when you are being actively interrupted for “just one question”. When I’m at home, I can block time on my calendar for “deep work”, shut down Outlook and Slack. I set my Slack status to “doing deep work until X:00”