I love working from home.

I learned recently that this is apparently a controversial stance. The unfolding novel coronavirus 2019 crisis is forcing many of us to work from home in an effort to help stop the spread. Not everyone greeted the news with a cheer. And that’s how I learned there are some people who claim to enjoy putting on work clothes and packing a sad desk lunch and battling morning traffic. Not me.

I’ve had jobs where I worked from home full-time, and jobs — like the one I have now — where I normally work from home every once in a while. I don’t want to brag, but I’m pretty good at it.

A lot of the “how to work from home” guides popping up this week seem to assume no one has ever pulled out their laptop to check their work email from home before. I trust you know the basics. So here are some tips to work from home more efficiently, stay connected with your colleagues, and maybe even enjoy yourself a little bit.

1. Sleep later.How long is your commute? And how long is your pre-office morning routine — selecting an outfit, doing your hair, figuring out what you’ll eat that day and deciding whether to pack a gym bag? Add that time up, and then set your morning alarm back by that amount of time. Plus, getting that extra sleep can help keep you from getting sick. Sleep in later — for your health.Here’s what you actually need to do before you start working from home: Be physically conscious and in front of a computer. That’s it. I am firmly on team “only get dressed up if you want to.”

2. Set up your desk.Whatever space you’re going to be working from at home, clean it. Normally, my desk at home has a bunch of bills I need to file, a few bottles of nail polish, a couple of books, some mail and a handful of old newspapers. If you are like me, mend your wicked ways. Make your home desk (or kitchen table) feel like your work desk. Have everything there that you’d have at work: a phone charger, a box of tissues, a water bottle, a mug, pens and paper.And don’t forget to get away from your desk. Take lunch away from your computer screen. At the end of your workday, get up and do something else for a while to differentiate your brain from “working time.” Remember to stretch.

3. Be ready for prime time.Teleconferencing and video calls are not the future. They are the present. Save your office’s dial-in number to your phone’s favorites so you’re ready to jump on a call at a moment’s notice.Figure out where you’re going to sit in your home when you’re on video calls and do a test run. Make sure whatever is in view is clean and presentable.If you’re using a laptop camera, put it on a stack of books so that you’re looking straight into the camera, not down at it. This is mostly to avoid the dreaded “Dear God, does my chin really look like that?” double take once you’re in the meeting. You want to be able to focus on your coworkers, not your face.Framing-wise, you want the camera to see from your chest to a few inches above the top of your head.

4. Maintain your connections and your mental health.Staying away from the office means missing out on casual day-to-day conversation with your colleagues. Make it a point to spend more of your free time reaching out to people via text and on social media. And video calls aren’t just for coworkers: Set up a Skype or FaceTime call with friends or relatives.Let me leave you with this, the single most important advice I can possibly impart to you:Mute yourself on conference calls.