Upcoming Time Use Events

​Fall

Friday, October 11 - Workshop
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Title: Using Time Use Data to Investigate Trends and Determinants of Social Isolation
Presenter: Liana Sayer, Director, Maryland Time Use Lab
Location 1101 Morrill Hall, UMD Campus

Friday, November 8 - Seminar
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Title: Who Telecommutes? Where is the Time Saved Spent?
Presenter: Harley Frazis, Bureau of Labor Statistics

The American Time Use Survey has shown a trend toward increased market work at home from its inception in 2003 to the present.  This paper examines one possible source of this trend, paid telecommuting, using data from the 2017-18 ATUS module on Leave and Job Flexibilities.  I analyze the relation between work at home and paid telework, examine the characteristics of telecommuters, and estimate where the time saved by not commuting to a workplace is spent.

Spring

SPRING 2020 - Save Dates

Friday, February 7 - Seminar
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Title: An Examination of High School Students' Time Use
Rose Woods, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Using data from the 2003-2018 ATUS, I examine how teenage high school students spend their time and how their time use changed over this period. In this research, I restrict the data to the months when high school students attend school (September through May). I examine a number of factors that may affect their time use, including age, gender, race, ethnicity, household composition, parents’ educational attainment, employment status, and whether the respondents or their parents are foreign-born.


​Date TBD - Seminar
RESCHEDULED from Fall 2019
Title: The Puzzling Problem of Overwork
Presenter: Brigid Schulte, Better Life Lab, New America

Japanese and American workers work among the longest hours of any advanced economies. Yet, in Japan, the productivity rate for all those hours worked is among the lowest, and America's productivity rates pale in comparison to other advanced economies where workers work fewer, better hours and have time for life. The consequences for such overworking cultures are severe: the Japanese government regularly compensates the families of workers who have, literally, been worked to death - karoshi - or, as is increasingly the case for younger workers, become depressed and suicidal. And in the United States, recent research has found that the stress created by the modern American workplace has made it the fifth leading cause of death. Overwork cultures not only make it impossible for women and caregivers to advance and have a voice, but steal individual agency and time for the very things that make life worth living. So why does overwork persist? Where will it lead? And how can it ever change?  A reporter’s continuing journey.



March 13 - TBD
Location TBD
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

April 10 - Susana Quiros, American University
Location TBD
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
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