I prefer heads down time. At my remote workplace, I found several channels where people ask for help. Combined with office hours, it is the main way I keep in touch with what is going on.

We also write up a weekly priorities (by team), and all the leadership put it together into emails. It is a great way for me to read what is going on.

I shift between deep work and collaborative problem solving.

It is not as if you can’t try structure things to have both.