Fair take.
I am not trying to be condescending here, but it's hard to view this behavior as anything but overly disruptive.
https://www.businessdit.com/distraction-work-statistics/
Instead of "just a quick question", the OP could prepare a list of their questions, and ask them all at the allocated time. A scheduled deep dive into the questions the OP has might even be more productive than multiple unscheduled disruptions of others' time.
And in an open office, even if you ask only a single person something, others might hear it too, despite the question not being intended to them.
We are talking about multiple people's brain cycles being dragged out their focus space, we are talking multiple conversations happening next to you, we are talking about click clack of people's keyboards next to you, and people moving going to take a coffee in your peripheral vision. It's a nightmare.
https://theconversation.com/returning-to-the-workplace-heres...
https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices
I am not trying to be condescending here, but it's hard to view this behavior as anything but overly disruptive.
https://www.businessdit.com/distraction-work-statistics/
Instead of "just a quick question", the OP could prepare a list of their questions, and ask them all at the allocated time. A scheduled deep dive into the questions the OP has might even be more productive than multiple unscheduled disruptions of others' time.
And in an open office, even if you ask only a single person something, others might hear it too, despite the question not being intended to them.
We are talking about multiple people's brain cycles being dragged out their focus space, we are talking multiple conversations happening next to you, we are talking about click clack of people's keyboards next to you, and people moving going to take a coffee in your peripheral vision. It's a nightmare.
https://theconversation.com/returning-to-the-workplace-heres...
https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices