With COVID-19 changing work across industries, companies of all sizes have adapted in different ways to keep business moving as fluidly as possible. One way has been by allowing employees to work from home. While this shift happened fast and became universally recognized as the right call to ensure safety, the shift to remote work has brought challenges that neither the professionals nor their employers had anticipated as it heads toward the half-year mark.

West Philadelphia native Gwendolyn Lewis is a product marketing manager for Disney+ and has a workflow that balances her background in tech with product design. A University of Pennsylvania graduate, Lewis moved to New York City at the end of January to begin work in her new role. When much of the city closed down in the second week of March, she returned to Philadelphia to stay with family and work from home.

While working from home, Lewis quickly ran into issues that stemmed from a lack of barriers between her personal life and work life.

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