The 2024 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals how Individuals spent their time throughout work, family, leisure, and childcare actions.
Whereas distant work continued to be in style, the survey of round 7,700 individuals discovered that extra males returned to the workplace. The variety of males working remotely decreased from 34% to 29%, whereas the speed of ladies working from residence remained the identical.
- Sleep: The common American reported sleeping 9.04 hours per day.
- Distant work: 33% of employed individuals labored from residence on days they labored, a determine much like 2023 and considerably larger than pre-pandemic 2019 ranges (24%).
- Work patterns: Males labored a mean of 33 minutes extra per day than ladies, a niche that persists even amongst full-time staff (8.2 hours for males vs. 7.9 for girls).
- Schooling and work location: Employees with at the least a bachelor’s diploma have been extra prone to do business from home (50%) than these with solely a highschool diploma (18%).
- Family actions: 87% of ladies and 74% of males hung out on family actions every day. Girls averaged 2.7 hours, males 2.3 hours. Practically half of ladies (48%) did house responsibilities in comparison with 22% of males.
- Leisure and sports activities: 94% of individuals aged 15+ engaged in leisure or sports activities every day. Males spent extra time (5.5 hours) than ladies (4.7 hours). Watching TV was the commonest exercise (2.6 hours/day), although TV watching has declined over the previous decade.
- Childcare: Adults in households with kids underneath 6 spent 2.5 hours every day on major childcare. Girls offered extra bodily care (1.2 hours) than males (34 minutes). Non-employed adults spent extra time on childcare than employed adults (3.2 vs. 2 hours).
These findings mirror ongoing shifts in American life, together with the persistence of distant work, gender variations in work and family obligations, and the continued significance of leisure—particularly TV—in every day routines.
Disclaimer: For this story, Fortune used generative AI to assist with an preliminary draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the data earlier than publishing.
