Comment by jonke

The thing is that we (as a group in this thread) don't have a shared view what productivity is. That you feel more productive when you are allowed to interact with other fellow programmers maybe true or false. If you should deliver something in a short timespan that will allow your company to taker an order of 15M € and you get distracted by two junior programmers discussion C string concatenation I'm sure your Company owner would feel that you are 'not productive'. Most people outside the programming pack consider turning time at work into money as productive. Programmers usually don't use that definition for productivity.