Restructuring Time Use Under COVID-19 Pandemics

As early evidence of COVID-19 19 pandemics’ impact of daily time use is beginning to emerge, the chapter documents and discusses the expected shifts in time use towards more home-based activities. These trends (more remote work and education) are not new, but the pandemics has clearly accelerated them and widened their scope. The time of media consumption has also increased across virtually all segments of the media market. Some of the less obvious effects of Covid-19 pandemics on time use is the growing hybridisation of time when both work and leisure take place at home, the relative undervaluation of leisure time (in its present restrained, home-based form of activities) and change in the perception of home as the quiet place which shields from work-related stresses.