101 Tips for Telecommuters—Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family

25. Multi-Task to Maximize Your Productivity

Telecommuting will not save you from workaholic tendencies that rob you of the balance you need to be both professionally and personally successful. Nor will it eliminate the time and focus you must invest to achieve high performance levels in a demanding or challenging job. It will, however, afford you the flexibility to manage the competing demands on your time if you're open to approaching these demands creatively and learning how to integrate the many facets of your life. This requires maintaining a focus on your work that is not singular but, rather, encompassing—allowing for the reality that your work is important/vital/critical/primo, but also that your life is not one-dimensional (or shouldn't ...