https://www.findingsreport.com/tags/timestyles/Recent content in Timestyles on The Findings ReportHugoen-usSun, 01 Oct 2017 08:58:00 -0700https://www.findingsreport.com/2017/10/01/where-has-the-time-gone/Sun, 01 Oct 2017 08:58:00 -0700https://www.findingsreport.com/2017/10/01/where-has-the-time-gone/<p>Cocooning is a word that entered popular lexicon in 1981, coined by trend guru Faith Popcorn. While a novel concept at the time, four decades later it is a fact of life. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than in the leisure habits of Americans.</p> <p>Executives in the media industry often talk about digital cocooning and shifts in viewing patterns, but a lot of that talk is anecdotal and relayed through hunches and personal observations. A good source of hard data can be found in the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/tus/home.htm"><em>American Time Use Survey</em></a> that is published each year by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. ATUS is a comprehensive breakdown of the ways in which Americans spend their time, with adjustments for weekdays, weekends and holidays. The data is used by economists, policy makers, social scientists and many others to understand everything from how much time we spend working at home to how much time we spend sleeping. One fascinating and often overlooked dimension of the study is the ways in which we spend our leisure time.</p>