
“Work, work, work, day after day/Fifty-hour week, forty-hour pay./No time to get over all this overtime./ Yeah, I'm always runnin', and always runnin' behind.” – Tracy Lawrence, American singer. You've probably faced it after a vacation, a business trip, or sick leave: that pile of work sitting in your inboxes, waiting for your return. Ideally, your team should have taken care of it, but there's always something waiting, even if it's "just" a barrage of distracting questions. While you're always likely to face some turmoil after a work absence, there are ways to temper the inevitable game of catch-up. You may have tried some of these in the past, but probably not all of them; and if you're new enough not to never have experienced a game of "catch-up", do yourself a favor and try some … [Read more...]