A Compilation of Short Takes on Working from Home

Abstract

The guest co-editor invited short essays from five contributors, who write here about their experiences of working from home. For those who are new to this, or new to doing it full-time, the collapse of separation between home and workplace has taken some getting used to, while those for whom working from home has long been business as usual testify to the habits and strategies they’ve learned for maintaining a separation between work and home life, even when those two spheres occupy the same space. Of those contributors looking forward to a time when they can return to the office and their kids can return to school, some wonder whether living and working at home during the coronavirus quarantine will change how they work even after the separation of home and office is restored.