Good, you¡¯re working from home. That¡¯s the right way to do your bit to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus that¡¯s rampaging across the world.

If you¡¯re not used to working from home, though, you might be feeling lonely, distracted, unproductive or just plain weird. It¡¯s one thing to work from home occasionally, and quite another to be exiled from the office for who knows how long.

Allow me to offer some tips. In 2018, I left a job where I was a Monday through Thursday office worker, with Fridays at home for deep work, and shifted to a new job where I¡¯d be working from home almost all the time. I thought it would be heavenly to have five days a week binge-editing at home. I was wrong. Until I learned to set boundaries between work and leisure, it was dislocating and disorienting.