Feeling short on time: trends, consequences, and possible remedies

This review highlights recent research on time shortage, which has been broadly classified into three streams. Building upon decades of time use survey and diary findings, the trends and demographics stream document the latest longitudinal changes in perceptions of time shortage (including a recent decline) and provides an increasingly clear picture of who is hardest hit by time shortage. Meanwhile, the consequences stream has underscored that although time shortage has myriad negative outcomes, busyness and time pressure are not all bad news. Last, the nascent remedies stream has largely sought to ameliorate time shortage not by altering people's actual, objective temporal resources, but instead by offering safeguards against or shifting people's perceptions of time shortage.