The Remote Pop-In (2021)
&gt; There&#x27;s really no remote equivalent to the pop-in.<p>There is one equivalent, and everyone is going to hate me suggesting it: call me. Pick up the phone and call me.<p>Yeah, Gen Zers, I said it. Use your telephone to send me an alert that says you want to speak to me with your voice. If I have time to chat, I&#x27;ll answer. If not, leave me a store-and-forward recorded offline message, aka voicemail. If I have time I&#x27;ll listen to it and call you back.<p>This is <i>inferior</i> to the pop-in for the interrupter, but <i>superior</i> for the interruptee. It gives us back control of whether we are interrupted (put your phone on silent if you really need to), it is universal and ubiquitous.<p>Obviously, because of phone spam, this doesn&#x27;t work with normal telephones (unless you add all your coworkers to your contacts). But Slack&#x2F;MS Teams&#x2F;Discord&#x2F;VoIP&#x2F;etc can solve that for us. Just tell everyone in your office to call you, and leave a message if you&#x27;re not there and you will get back to them as soon as you can. Put &quot;Call Me&quot; as your away message. Voice calls worked well enough for nearly a century as a remote working method; I think we can learn to do it again.