[AdamJMarsh]

Except you're also affecting the individual productivity of others.

The tap on the shoulder is the most annoying thing working on site. There's no respect for the urgent & critical tasks.

You would want others to spend 2 hours commuting, wasting time on parking, food & fuel just to be able to physically speak to them.

What a waste of our current technological advantages.

Why bother working in tech, when you don't use it to better yourself and others?

[rightbyte]

I had a collegue who would literary tap me on the shoulder. It was a loud open office so I had noise cancelling headphones.

It was insanely annoying. And when I told him to please stop, he started to wave his hand in my peripheral vision.

I pretty much gave up trying to make him behave. I mean those headphones are not that good you can just speak ...

Just the risk of such things makes it hard for me to concentrate. They need not have to happen, just that they could is enough.

I think it is the walking up behind me on row desks that is the problem. I have a private office now with my side to the door and in no way I feel the same.

[hackerfromthefu]

A useful tactic in this situation is to not reward the colleague for interrupting you like that.

e.g. you could answer, but state you are in the middle of something, can't focus now, and please send you an email. If you are politely obstinate enough they will soon learn they are wasting their time with the interruptions and will be trained to send an email straight away instead.