Under traditional work arrangements, it was easier to separate your personal life from your professional life. Sure, people had issues of responding to emails from the dinner table or putting off taking their PTO, but for the most part it was clear: I’m professional at the office; I’m personal at home. However, the pandemic changed all of that. For the past year, many workers were forced to operate exclusively from their homes, destroying the foundations of their work-life balance. And since it seems like remote work is here to stay, it’s important to find ways to re-establish that delineation. First, it’s important to establish a work area. Not many have the luxury of setting up a full-blown home office, but most can set up an area where work lives. Ideally, this can be out of sight when not performing work, so that you can break psychologically once the workday ends. And while there’s novelty in working in your pajamas, mentally it may not be the best for you. Putting on different clothes is a cue for your brain that it’s time to do something new—even if it’s a lateral change from work leggings to evening leggings. It can also help to create a fake commute. Commutes helped place physical distance between domestic and professional life, and now that the ritual is gone, it can be disconcerting to roll out of bed and immediately be on the clock. Consider a walk around the block or a morning/evening meditation session to replace the commute and to get ready for and decompress from the workday.