Turn It Off: How to Unplug from the Anytime-Anywhere Office Without Disconnecting from Your Career

First people traveled to work, then they created home offices and began telecommuting, and then they got wired with laptops, e-mail and cell phones and work became 24/7. Setting boundaries between work and life when the distinction is virtual is difficult but possible, coaches Gil Gordon, an expert on the topic, in Turn It Off: How to Unplug from the Anytime-Anywhere Office Without Disconnecting Your Career. The ""basic premise for change,"" he believes, is ""it's your own responsibility."" To that end, Gordon has created a workable system he calls ""100/60/0"" to enable readers, no matter how plugged in, to be able to declare all systems off at least part of the time. Agent, Liv Blumer, Karpfinger Agency. ( Mar.)