Pants may be optional when working from home.

These gifts are not.

The pandemic is no longer new. Nope. It’s more like the elephant in the room that’s wearing a mask. If you’re working from home, you’ve more than likely built your home office from scratch or tweaked it to new levels since COVID-19 became part of the global consciousness. You may believe your space can’t possibly hold another item that will make your work life less tedious. But you would be wrong. Here are a few gifts to make your WFH area less work, more play. — Darcel Rockett

Homesick’s natural soy wax Beach Cottage candle transports you to a stroll on the beach. You don’t have to walk on the water to feel as if you’re there with this nontoxic candle that burns for 60 to 80 hours. $34, homesick.com