Young adults work hard, and they sleep hard.
Millennials have less time to themselves throughout the day, according to a new study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and much of the time they do have is spent unconscious. On average, young adults clocked in nine hours of sleep each day, compared to the baby boomers’ 8.6 hours. That’s about 23 more minutes per day.
Older adults are more likely to spend their time at home relaxing, thinking, and reading, but both generations spend the majority of their free time watching TV. However, millennials are less likely to watch TV on any given day than their elders.
Millennials also socialize more and do more recreation than older generations. It seems the one thing they don’t do much of is just relax.
And some studies suggest that even when millennials sleep, they might be doing it wrong. More than 8 in 10 millennials admitted they sleep with a cell phone “glowing by the bed,” according to a recent Pew Research study.
The constant stream of technology means we’re being inundated with an overload of information — right until the moment we fall asleep. This tends to have an adverse effect on our sleep schedules, and it seems millennials are attempting to make up for it by sleeping more.
