Distracting software engineers is more harmful than most managers think (workweave.dev)

At this point it feels like an acceptable trade-off for companies.

we deployed AI so it could stay on task without pause.

we kept the engineers because we could break the focus and reassign task.

we had it horribly backwards, but the prospectus insisted otherwise.

>Distracting software engineers is more harmful than most managers think

It cuts both ways ;)

As a manager, people interrupting me with their confusing tech can be such distracting software engineers that I have trouble getting anything done. Worst of all, right when I'm in the middle of preparing for another pointless meeting :(

I personally have never really experienced distractions as negative for my productivity. Of course it is annoying to be interrupted in the middle of something, but usually getting back to the task takes a few minutes at most. I never understood how people on the Internet tend to be so upset about it.