I bill by the hour too. It's the only sane way to do it, and contra to your intuition it stops micromanagement and makes clients respectful of your time. Clien

I bill by the hour too. It's the only sane way to do it, and contra to your intuition it stops micromanagement and makes clients respectful of your time. Clients don't know or care about context switching for other clients, they care about the quality of the work provided, so take care of that and you'll be ok. It's not like you'll be constantly switching anyway. Usually I'll work all day or all half a day on one specific thing anyway. In terms of accounting for each hour, there are software tools to help with that. Just click when you're working and click when you stop and the software tallies up the time. I don't provide clients with hourly breakdowns of everything I worked on, I just send a bill at the end of the month that includes total hours worked that month. Regular video calls and email, plus delivered results are sufficient proof of work.