I would either leave him in a crate or maybe baby gate the kitchen.
If he's used to being with you all the time, he may experience some seperation anxiety. I would start today getting him used to being alone for short periods of time and the gradually extending the length of time periods he's alone.
Another good way to avoid seperation anxiety is to ignore him 15 minutes before leaving and 15 minutes after getting home.
I crate trained my dogs for the first couple months after adopting and then started just leaving them in the bedroom until I trusted them to have free reign of the house while I was gone. Actually, with Reece it was a couple months in the crate and I never crated Lolly because it traumatizes her due to her past But when I adopted Lolly, Reece was just over his seperation anxiety and had graduated from the crate so they had each other to keep company.
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