ABSTRACT
An early effort to investigate Americans' use of their time by J. Robinson and G. Godbey led them to categorize time use in four areas: Productive, Maintenance, Expressive, and then Travel involved in each of the areas. A perspective on potential shifts in time use can be noted using data collected by J. L. Steele and R. Poor relating to the four-day, 40-hour workweek that was implemented by some companies at that time. These authors found that the people who switched from a five-day workweek to a four-day workweek stated that they increased a variety of activities with the extra weekend day. If people have one more weekend day available each week, they will presumably, according to their habits since 2005, use that day to spend more time sleeping and watching TV – but also much less time working and a bit more time in entertainment and in household work as compared to their weekday behavior.
