Hi everyone,
When I am working in-office (3 or 4 days a week), I can find it quite difficult to concentrate at times (and every time there's an interruption it takes that much longer to get back to where I was). I work in a glorified broom closet with two other people who have very different (higher) tolerances for noise and disturbances. Someone kindly suggested noise-cancelling headphones, but I have a thing about situational awareness and not hearing people come up behind me is unnerving. Does anyone have suggestions for how I might make this more navigable without rocking the boat too much (or even just commiserations)? While we're working hard on our DEAI, recognizing and accomodating neurodiversity in the workplace isn't quite there yet.
Thanks!
I second the mirror idea. I've also seen people have like a stop light system. Green for "I'm happy to chat," Yellow for "I don't have a ton of time," or Red for "Unless the building is on fire, don't talk to me."
I joked to my boss that I was going to get some kind of flag and raise/lower it, like the Queen of England did whenever she was at one of her residences - if it's raised, come say hi. :-)