This might be better phrased as “maximum work hours per day”, where every work-related activity counts toward those hours. Some jobs, unfortunately, naturally

This might be better phrased as “maximum work hours per day”, where every work-related activity counts toward those hours. Some jobs, unfortunately, naturally have weird hours (because the company has worldwide offices, is in a special industry or whatever). You wouldn’t, for instance, get very far responding to disasters if you were not in a position to even find out about them most of the time. The problem isn’t so much the “after-work” activity but what “work” means. If my job required responses to issues at weird hours, I would expect to reduce hours at the not-weird times. You shouldn’t be able to have it both ways though, otherwise workers never have any reasonable way to truly disconnect, which is stress.