If I have to work in an office in a city 9-5 and show up in person, I'm pretty much going to spend the rest of my day in my home on my computer anyway. I cant g

If I have to work in an office in a city 9-5 and show up in person, I'm pretty much going to spend the rest of my day in my home on my computer anyway. I cant go to Bali and back in one evening. Most of the year I cant even head down to the beach for a swim locally anyway all the sunlight is gone. Hell I'm going to be in too shitty of a mood to enjoy myself even if I did. Any day that I was in a city, drove in peak traffic, and spent time in an office is ruined for me. Does that mean every day that I met those criteria I actually worked from wake up to fall asleep? No of course not. It's just reduced utility. I can do less with an hour that's sandwiched between two days where I had to work than one surrounded by many days of free time. I can do even less with an hour on a day in which I have to work. Then less with an hour where I have to work in both the previous and next hour. Or yeah, an hour in which I need to be ready to start working at short notice. Then true remote, remote but same time zone/country, remote except for once every couple weeks, in office most days, in office every day; all heavily impact the utility of your time off as well. Same as, if you are required to be in the office, the location of it. Being reasonably bathed, not having offensive tattoos, coming home physically exhausted, mentally exhausted, emotionally exhausted. Different jobs, roles, careers, etc have a ton of different impacts on the utility of free time. The idea of picking one specific reduction in utility and declaring this one counts as work in all caps and bold seems arbitrary and useless at best and hindering ones ability to think about the costs of the job at worst. Like what's to gain? Instead of getting paid $X to work 40 hours per week plus 10 on call you get paid $X to work 50 hours per week of which 10 are on call? Ok cool you shuffled some categories around. It doesn't change anything practical. They're paying me for some reason and thats what goes on my job title and appears on my payslip but its not why they need to pay me. Getting worked up about on call hours not getting counted as to why they pay you makes as much sense to me as calling up HR and going all "sorry theres been a mistake. My payslip says you paid me $X for 40 hours of software development but actually you're mostly paying me to not be on a tropical island and to put up with Jeff. I demand Listening To Jeff and Not On Island be listed as line items of work performed."