JDawnInk/Getty Images toggle caption JDawnInk/Getty Images Working from home can be monotonous and draining. If we make room for things that bring us joy again, we might actually start feeling more productive. JDawnInk/Getty Images Kristy Miller's dogs, Oreo and Dabo, often start barking right on cue when she joins a Zoom call from her home. And much too often, Miller hears herself ask a single, exasperated question over the piercing yaps of her dogs: "Can you hear me?" During the pandemic, like a lot of people, Miller has been working from home in Charlotte, N.C., where she lives with her dogs: a white Shichon with dark droopy ears, and a Yellow Labrador.