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I've found that if you're using ssh then taking your hands off the keyboard to grab a mouse just to click a different tab is slow and annoying.
I use a terminal multiplexer, tmux, and just keep different sessions open for each server that I need to connect to.
There's a ton of hotkeys and plugins that can handle essentially anything you'd like to do. Once you learn the few hotkeys (print a cheatsheet and force yourself to use the hotkeys).
Tmux is awesome. We've somehow fallen into using screen at work, I think just old habits. So yes, on the other side of the ssh connections there's usually a series of screen sessions for us to join. Should try to move onto tmux - it is nicer.