Brigid Schulte has often put off leisure time, like it's something she needs to earn first. "Too busy to live," is how she puts it. Like many of the subjects in her new book Overwhelmed: Work, Love ...

Women now have less leisure time than they did 15 years ago, while men are taking more time for themselves. That’s according to new data released by the Office for National Statistics in the UK this ...

Mint.com writer Matthew Amster-Burton recently posted a conundrum he was puzzling through. He'd just helped his daughter's school library raise money through a book sale. To organize it, he'd taken a ...

As employees increasingly add leisure time to their business trips, companies are trying to figure out where their duty of care obligations begin and end. Credit...Aart-Jan Venema Supported by By Amy ...

WASHINGTON – A Pew Research Center analysis finds men have more leisure time than women. Men spend about five more hours a week than women playing games, watching TV exercising and socializing, ...

How do you spend time with your romantic partner? Is it with other people or alone? Are you working (e.g., doing chores, on devices) or are you mindfully interacting? The hustle and bustle of daily ...

Just because you aren't actively working on something doesn't mean you can't be productive. Personal finance blog The Simple Dollar points out that there are two types of free time: leisure time, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. In 1930, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes speculated that the 21st ...

The past 18 months have brought new challenges as people have negotiated the new norms and restrictions of a global pandemic. Many of the things that brought people joy were no longer possible.