Time use - Topics

What people notice when they journal only the hours they enjoyed How do volunteers fit community service around paid work? UTC+1 in Lagos and UTC+1 in Berlin are not the same working day How long should a podcast episode run before listeners drop off? Padding the travel time and still arriving late Reviewing a year by milestones rather than by hours Why we check the phone every thirty seconds while waiting Time affluence is not unemployment: what unclaimed hours do for creativity Why we underestimate how long a task will take and how to correct the estimate Saving hours with automation and then filling them with more work Retirees gain hours and report less leisure than expected Unpaid overtime is a hole in every employment statistic Why a written record beats memory when reviewing how a month was spent Queue psychology: why people hate a stalled line more than a slow service Kodak ran on a 13-month calendar until 1989 and the International Fixed Calendar nearly won Why commuting time hovers near one hour a day in almost every city Why the planning fallacy makes us promise deadlines we cannot keep Estimating a task from its worst previous run instead of its best Always late because of one more thing: the last task before leaving Telling someone how long the wait will be is half of the service Waiting for other people is the tax of shared schedules An annual review is really a time audit: where did the year actually go Why the weeks feel full and the year feels empty Reading your calendar from a year ago and feeling nothing about it Time famine in two income households and who absorbs the shortfall Do people with less free time really value it more What people do with sudden free time and why it often disappoints Counting childcare that happens while cooking: the simultaneity problem in time-use data Retirement as the biggest experiment in time affluence How much of an average weekday goes to work vs commuting? Boredom and anxiety sit on either side of flow Csikszentmihalyi's original studies: how painters and surgeons described their best hours