We've gotten so bad with cubeville-interruptions that we have to cross the sea to get any relief.

I work for a global corporation, and we constantly have people going back and forth between our biggest IT departments to "work on projects". At first I thought this was a political thing to get some "face" time elsewhere. Then one of the developers from our head office told me that "no one called" while he was here. Things started clicking together.

We have a very open environment, both cublicle and phone. And it definitely has it's benefits. The CEO wants that so much that the voicemail is disabled during normal business hours 8(. But it's very hard to get uninterrupted time. Worse for me because I'm a Sys Admin, so I get the barrage of questions daily which is my job to answer. Working on training my assistant (what luxury!) to be a "phone firewall" for me.

What we've ended up doing is when we need to work on a project, abandoning our nice safe cubicle and setting up shop in a different one, hopefully in a different building. This way we're harder to track down and interrupt, and only happens for real problems, not someone just wanting to ask about the trivial.

=Blue
...you might be eaten by a grue...