The COVID-19 pandemic has confined millions in their homes, an unprecedented opportunity to spend more time together with family members. This paper explores subjective well-being in the uses of time for US and UK workers, differentiating between solo activities and activities done with family members, at home and outside the home. Using American and British time use surveys, we compute the instant utility associated with paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and childcare activities. OLS regressions on both men and women show that workers prefer joint leisure to solo leisure, and that significant differences exist for solo and joint market work and housework, between the sexes. Despite that, the effect magnitudes are relatively low. Furthermore, we simulate a strict lockdown situation by replacing where and with whom worker episodes would be, based on mid-2020 strict confinements. Results suggest diverging effects, since more time with the spouse/partner and children, and less time with others, seems to increase the experienced wellbeing of women, compared to that of men. The simulation exercise also reveals asymmetric effects in the US and in the UK. The conclusions of this paper may help in assessing the psychological consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns, beyond the negative economic and labour market consequences.

COVID-19 大流行已将数百万人限制在家中，这是与家人共度更多时间的前所未有的机会。本文探讨了美国和英国工人在时间使用方面的主观幸福感，区分了个人活动和与家庭成员一起完成的活动，包括在家和在家外。使用美国和英国的时间使用调查，我们计算了与有偿工作、无偿工作、休闲和儿童保育活动相关的即时效用。对男性和女性的 OLS 回归表明，与单独休闲相比，工人更喜欢联合休闲，并且男女之间在单独和联合市场工作和家务劳动方面存在显着差异。尽管如此，影响幅度相对较低。此外，我们通过替换工人情节的地点和对象来模拟严格的锁定情况，基于 2020 年年中的严格限制。结果表明存在不同的影响，因为与男性相比，与配偶/伴侣和孩子在一起的时间更多，与他人在一起的时间更少，似乎增加了女性的幸福感。模拟练习还揭示了美国和英国的不对称效应。除了负面的经济和劳动力市场后果之外，本文的结论可能有助于评估 COVID-19 封锁的心理后果。