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To go offline in slack should be an option. Talk to your manager or someone at the company. You have a disability, there must be accommodations.

What I do is keep any chat and such closed and only accept e-mail. I then have two set times a day where I check it by going through the mailbox. There should be no argument that you can't do this unless you're employed to be always on-call and need to be responsive in 5 minutes.

Make sure to generate a paper trail when asking.




Depends on the role and company. A big company can probably tolerate a couple non-team-player developers who just execute on tasks they're given in isolation, but most of the time software engineering is a team activity and being unresponsive to teammates is going to block them from getting their work done.

I'd rather have one developer take a hit to their productivity to answer a coworkers questions and keep the whole team moving forward than have the team blocked so that one employee can complete their ticket in a single uninterrupted block.


IMO being offline from Slack from time to time should be an option for all employees.


Being offline doesn't help with distractions. People will send messages anyway and that red dot will be there. This is a long standing issue with Slack, you can't silence it completely. Even muting channels doesn't help, you will get a notification or the red dot anyway.

The only way is to go nuclear: uninstall it from your phone and close the desktop app. But that isn't doable in most companies.




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