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Please acquaint yourself with the term "interrupt overhead". Then with the term "email". I can suggest a number of books on effective communication as well. Few of them recommend randomly interrupting people busy actually doing things.



In the TFA the OP is being interrupted in an office without an open floor plan.

I am saying that an open floor plan would make it easier for others to read his body language that he currently does not want to be interrupted.


Why does body language need to get into involved? It is a simple flowchart.

Is a building on fire? Yes? Interrupt. No? Email and trust the person to properly prioritize your email between work items.


>Why does body language need to get into involved?

Because it doesn't break your concentration to communicate via body language compared to telling someone that you can't talk right now.


ASSUME people shouldn’t be interrupted.




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