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>> If I am disrupted 5 times with 5 small things in an hour, that will slow me down significantly

But those 5 people who interrupted you are no longer blocked. If they had to schedule a call with you tomorrow or the next day then the overall productivity of the team could very well drop.

Companies care less about your individual productivity and more about the productivity of the entire organization.

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Or more likely they could have sent me a message and still received their update within the hour, all without interrupting me.

If you don't have anything else you could be doing for that whole hour you probably aren't that busy anyway, in which case waiting won't hurt you too much.

The office I worked in pre pandemic had a pretty clear "don't bother people wearing headphones" etiquette. With a variation of that it seems like you could be fine?

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