We received this comment below on the podcast (Episode 100), and so we’re answering his question on dealing with distractions in open offices, to kick of the new year. Hey guys, thanks for the content! I’d like to hear your ideas about handling extended busy times. I’ve been practicing GTD (poorly, but trying) for 4 or 5 years and firmly believe in the system. I’m a manager in what is, unfortunately, effectively an open office. I don’t currently have the ability to schedule my time which makes it extremely difficult to work on the important things without getting interrupted. In the next few months I’ll be moving to a separate office in the same building which will then give me the opportunity [to] put a schedule in place. In the meantime, and for others caught in the same sort of situation (think customer service for example) it would be great to get some tips on what might work in these types of situations. Cheers!Brent (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/106 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you’d like to continue discussing Dealing with Distractions in Open Offices from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Dealing With Distractions in Open Offices Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Francis Wade Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Ray— Scheduling calls for most interruptive conversationsActive noise cancelling (ANC) headphonesLuxafor lightsSound barrier panels (Ray’s preferred panels: Versare SoundSorb VersiPanel) Raw Text Transcript | Dealing With Distractions in Open Offices Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you’ve come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17A quick note, before we get started with our episode today, for those of you listening, who are interested in engaging with others, listening to ProductivityCast, please find our digital community at WWW dot personal productivity dot club, sign up, and we’ll approve you into the community, then find the ProductivityCast channel and join that you can come on and episodes, ask questions and engage with the ProductivityCast. Team and community. It’s easy to sign up and it’s free. Again, that’s www dot personal productivity dot club. Thanks so much. And now on with the show ProductivityCast Episode 106 Welcome back, everybody to ProductivityCast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I’m Ray Sidney-Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:55 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:56I’m Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:58 And I’m Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:59Welcome, gentlemen. And Happy New Year, Happy New Year to listeners. This is our first episode of 2021. And hopefully this year will be a better year than 20, in the sense that after hopefully, you know, people start to get vaccinated in larger swamps and everything else like that, we’ll be getting back to our normal lifestyles. And I’m looking forward to, you know, seeing people in real life again, very soon. And what we wanted to do today, is we got a listener question. And we thought, Well, why the heck not answer that listener question as a good…