Their collective gains from this household innovation are two additional
hours of leisure time per week.
But let's not shoot the messenger (or resort to physical violence: on NYT blogger Lisa Belkin's analysis of the piece, commenter «Ross» wrote: «If I ever meet that Robinson dude I'm going to spend my 30
hours of leisure time as a stay - at - home mom punching him dead in the face.»
According to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, individuals who spend four or more
hours of leisure time per day sitting in front of a screen (whether it be computer or TV) have a 48 percent increased risk of death from any cause, and a 125 percent increased risk of having a heart problem that results in hospitalization, compared to those who spend less than two hours a day relaxing in front of the TV / computer.
One Merril - Lynch study on Baby Boomers suggests that as members of their generation retire, up to 2.5 trillion
hours of leisure time will be created.
Then enjoy two
hours of leisure time shopping, eating, and swimming at Mo» Bay's hip strip.
San Diego - based The Behemoth's latest is side - scrolling platformer so dense with content it feels like three games in one, each easily capable of devouring many
hours of leisure time — especially if you have a few friends willing to commute to your living room.
How much should someone pay you to take a couple
hours of your leisure time?
Not exact matches
In 2016, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics conducted the American
Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free time — or 2.7 hours — each
Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top
leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free
time — or 2.7 hours — each
time — or 2.7
hours — each day.
Long
hours, for example, may be acceptable if workers believe the loss
of leisure time is justified by the extra income.
Others are blenders, constantly searching for opportunities to squeeze moments
of family
time into their work days and moments
of work into their
leisure hours.
Hours spent sitting in pointlessly long conference calls, or unnecessary meetings, are nothing but «disguised and ineffective
leisure time» no more noble than sitting numb in front
of the television.
The term
leisure (and the use
of other related words yet to be defined, e.g., play, festivity, games, etc.) might best be limited to refer only to Clawson's «fun activities,» with a more neutral term such as discretionary
time being used to indicate those moments or
hours free from subsistence activity.
American families have undergone dramatic changes in the past five decades, as the share
of adults who are married has declined from 72 % in 1960 to about 50 % today.18 Compared with single fathers and fathers who live with a partner, married fathers work longer
hours in their job and have the least amount
of leisure time.
Between 2003 and 2008, fathers had on average 32
hours per week
of free
time; mothers had 31
hours.32 Fathers also had more
leisure time than mothers, as discussed earlier in the chapter using 2003 to 2011 ATUS: On average, fathers spend about 28
hours per week on
leisure activities, roughly three
hours more than mothers.
Alpa Patel (PhD), an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, showed men who spent six
hours or more per day
of their
leisure time sitting had an overall death rate that was about 20 percent higher than the men who sat for three
hours or less.
The men in the study who spent six
hours or more per day
of their
leisure time sitting had an overall death rate that was 20 percent higher than the men who sat for three
hours or less.
What's more, with an average member age
of 30 - 55, our users are in the prime
of their careers so they know what it is like to have to balance
leisure time with long work
hours.
One reason for this could be that the demands
of modern life don't leave much
time to look for love: with the typical US work week now at 47
hours or more, 2 singles who want to get a toe on the professional ladder are finding their
leisure time is at a premium.
He or she will be sure to tell you that — despite long summers spent basking on the beaches
of the Riviera, despite winter breaks spent sliding down the slippery slopes
of Aspen, despite
hours that would make a banker green with envy, despite full -
time salaries spent on filling the
leisure hours left by what are really only part -
time jobs — teaching is a tough profession.
You don't have to go the whole hog and produce a AAA eLearning or serious games title to create compelling learning, but with so much demand on learners
time during working
hours, and so many great examples
of what draws our learners attention during
leisure time, why wouldn't you try to leverage some
of the techniques used to make your learning and development more effective and more engaging.
Google's data indicates that people are spending an astonishing four - and - a-half
hours of their daily
leisure time in front
of a screen.
So while his daytime
hours are spent at a local liberal arts college teaching literature to entitled millennials who would rather spend more
time arguing about the finer points
of plagiarism than write yet another essay about Hamlet, Sam drowns his
leisure hours playing Elfquest, an online role - playing game where his avatar is the coolest and most revered among his fellow gamers.
So assuming I can work overtime or assuming I have a certain amount
of time I set a side for other things in my life (
leisure,
time with the dog, etc) I often find it advantages to save a few
hours of searching through houses myself and just pay an agent.
• DVD player and a selection
of DVDs available, suitable for all ages (subject to availability) • Xbox and games • Board games • An excellent selection
of outdoor games • Outdoor adventure play area • Food and drink menus especially for little ones • No restriction on swimming
times during the
leisure club opening
hours — kids are always welcome!
The Sunseeker 1 includes free hotel pickup for Perth and Fremantle passengers from selected hotels, hosted cruise on the spectacular Swan River from Perth to Fremantle with full commentary tour and commentary plus morning tea (Perth passengers only), same day return ferry fare, sumptuous buffet luncheon, morning and afternoon tea / wine tasting (Perth passengers only), two
hour island coach tour with commentary, plus plenty
of free
time to explore the island at your
leisure.
The Sunseeker 5 includes free hotel pickups for Perth and Fremantle passengers from selected hotels, hosted cruise on the spectacular Swan River from Perth to Fremantle with full commentary (ex Perth only), return ferry fare to Rottnest Island, fascinating two
hour Rottnest Island coach tour with full commentary, light luncheon, morning and afternoon tea / wine tasting (ex Perth only), plus plenty
of free
time to explore the island at your
leisure.
The Sunseeker 6 includes free hotel pickups for Perth and Fremantle passengers from selected hotels, hosted cruise on the spectacular Swan River from Perth to Fremantle with full commentary (ex Perth only), return ferry fare to Rottnest Island, light luncheon, morning and afternoon tea / wine tasting (ex Perth only), fascinating underwater viewing cruise aboard the «Underwater Explorer», two
hour island coach tour with full commentary, plus plenty
of free
time to explore the island at your own
leisure.
The fully hosted Sunseeker Premium includes free return pickups from selected hotels, a spectacular Swan River cruise with full commentary (ex Perth), morning and afternoon tea or optional wine tasting (ex Perth only), a fascinating two
hour island coach tour, a sumptuous buffet lunch at the Rottnest Lodge, plenty
of free
time to explore the island at your
leisure plus a complimentary gift as a momento
of your visit to Western Australia.
It's games like Stardew Valley and this that offer me some great
leisure when it comes to options for
time sinks, the games offer dozens
of hours, if not more
of content.
With only 5
hours of educational computer
time that you can take at your
leisure.
Responses were summed to compute
hours / week
of leisure -
time physical activity.
Thus, I would not rank you as a part - timer at all, but more accurately I would rank you as a full - timer whose only job (real estate transactions) is carried out as a methodically acting Realtor who efficiently controls her
hours of operation and thus allows for more
leisure time (likely thinking about her future real estate strategies during some
of that
leisure time) unfettered with opposing responsibilities elsewhere in the workforce.