About “leisure time”:

Work/life balance has become a common phrase in the UK in recent years, as more focus has been put on people’s working lives and how they affect health, wellbeing and family life. Mintel’s consumer research has found that more than a third of UK workers have less than two hours of leisure time on a typical weekday, while only three in ten think that they have achieved a good balance between work and leisure time. Despite this, very few are interested in downshifting, with only one in five full-time workers agreeing that they would prefer to work fewer hours, even if it meant earning less money and even fewer agreeing that they would give up money or material things in exchange for more free time.

This report, Mintel’s first on the subject, looks at people’s leisure time, how much they have and what they tend to do with it. It contains exclusive consumer research comparing weekday and weekend leisure activities, while also examining people’s attitudes towards leisure time.