- Pick a day to be 100% meeting free, agree with team / other teams to do same, block out your calendar - Lighter version of above, put focus blocks in your calendar. Try and setup some routine where you do creative stuff in the morning, comms in the afternoon or similar
- Work strict fixed hours, 8-5, no fiddling (eg. doing some 2 hour thing in the middle of the day). Having boundaries makes it easier to switch on / off and to say no to working longer.
- Turn off all notifications, setup personal / team SLAs to get back to dependent parties. Slack etc are supposed to be async, not, I will always stop everything to answer your question
- Have proper support / incident processes. eg. a support rota so that each week its one persons responsibility to monitor the team channel. This means for that week the rest of the team can focus
- The above also bleeds into having good wikis / team docs so people can self serve, instead of asking for help
I wrote an article touching on this a while ago, will dig it out and post. The idea is the solution to remote work fatigue is better communication.
Just posted the article I wrote here https://blog.8by3.com/p/stop-interrupting-me
choutos•37m ago