{"id":11611,"date":"2016-02-15T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2016-02-16T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T10:10:09","slug":"interruptions_at_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/interruptions_at_work\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet God of Interruptions at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very good reason why I zone out when I have something to finish fast. That reason is usually associated with an annoying voice, but today it was associated with puppy eyes. Seriously, I feel that this is the best strategy to undermine a team&#8217;s focus under deadline. Enter #uberPuppies!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puppy_crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11623\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puppy_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Puppy at Hubgets headquarters\" width=\"846\" height=\"717\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puppy_crop.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puppy_crop-177x150.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puppy_crop-354x300.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/puppy_crop-768x651.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So we got to pet this fluffy ball of fur &#8211; 7 weeks old Pufarina &#8211; and see her chew some keyboard cable. This was 15 minutes, felt like 5, and the impact was that I am still struggling to get back in the zone and finish today&#8217;s tasks &#8211; half an hour later!<\/p>\n<p>These 15 minutes are worth a moment of study: a while ago, before making Hubgets, we were experiencing a lot of situations in which we got interrupted. Hubgets is a software company, so every interruption counts for strings of code getting a bit broken, a bit blurry, eventually re-done. That translates into delays, then into frustration, and finally into money down the drain.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when someone speaks with me while I am sitting in front of my monitor. If I am absorbed into what I am doing, I will nod politely and pretend I am listening. This is bad both for me and for the person talking to me, and it can be avoided by some common-sense rules that we have applied in the Hubgets status options. Here is how I am applying the rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When my status in Hubgets is set to <strong>Busy<\/strong>, I am not in the chit-chat mood. It probably means <strong>I am doing something that can&#8217;t bear interruptions<\/strong> of any kind.<\/li>\n<li>When my status is set to <strong>Available<\/strong>, it means that, while I am doing something, you can ask me stuff on chat, call me, or even show up at my desk to share semi-interesting stuff. <strong>I will listen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When my status is set to <strong>Hubgets knows better<\/strong>, it means I might be in a Topic, talking with the team about work stuff. <strong>I can be interrupted with a very good excuse<\/strong>. Something like the building is on fire! run first, tweet after&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On days like today, my productivity gene thanks the Hubgets gods for creating a focus-cocoon. But it also admits defeat in front of puppy cuteness overload ???<\/p>\n<p>BTW:<br \/>\na. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~gmark\/chi08-mark.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A study from the University of California Irvine<\/a> identified that it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the task.<br \/>\nb. Prior to the puppy visit I was working on a process flow. I think it came out completely different from the initial idea I had.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very good reason why I zone out when I have something to finish fast. 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