Speaking as somewhat of an introvert I find having to conduct a real-time telephone conversation hugely more disrupting to my "coding flow" than reading or responding to email/IM/IRC.
Sure. But this is an opportunity to further optimise office workflow. Given how disruptive face to face meetings and telephone calls are, why not get them all done in the first two hours of the workday? Then you can head to your desk and work totally uninterrupted. With e-mail interruption I'm constantly in and out of the zone.
It sounds like the pet project of some extrovert management person [...] Not convinced.
I'm not convinced either, but that passage just makes you sound like "some introvert coder person". There isn't a "right" answer to this- you and the imagined extrovert have a difference of opinion, but labeling yourself as more "cerebral" doesn't mean you are right. Loud, extroverted co-workers who get in your space are annoying. So are introverted programmers that spend all day with earphones in refusing to engage with the team around them.
If I'm sounding like I'm some introvert coder person it's because I am. Introversion doesn't have to mean that you wear headphones and refuse to engage with anybody, it can just mean that direct human interaction takes up more of your concentration. I'm not sure what I wrote that made you think I thought there was a "right" answer? It seems obvious from both our comments that neither of us think this so I guess something in my tone/wording rubbed you up the wrong way, so for that I apologise. I was attempting to communicate that any high-handed company wide commands are unlikely to fit with everyone's personal foibles. At the end of the day I think a relaxed culture of mutual consideration of our colleagues working practices is the way to go.
Sure. But this is an opportunity to further optimise office workflow. Given how disruptive face to face meetings and telephone calls are, why not get them all done in the first two hours of the workday? Then you can head to your desk and work totally uninterrupted. With e-mail interruption I'm constantly in and out of the zone.
It sounds like the pet project of some extrovert management person [...] Not convinced.
I'm not convinced either, but that passage just makes you sound like "some introvert coder person". There isn't a "right" answer to this- you and the imagined extrovert have a difference of opinion, but labeling yourself as more "cerebral" doesn't mean you are right. Loud, extroverted co-workers who get in your space are annoying. So are introverted programmers that spend all day with earphones in refusing to engage with the team around them.