That is actually one thing I refuse to compromise, and I think the current state of tech gives most developers this luxury, possibly if you are willing to trade

That is actually one thing I refuse to compromise, and I think the current state of tech gives most developers this luxury, possibly if you are willing to trade off some compensation. Even if that changes, this would be the last thing to go, for me :) If I'm on call, I'm 100% on call. If something important is late (not endemically but as a one off), I'm fine with working late or on the weekend. Even if someone "unfairly" drags me into their on-call issue I will stay up late and help them. But once I check out, I check out. I refuse to install work stuff on my phone, and have most notifications off by default... on a rare occasion that someone from work texts me in off hours and off call, I would "miss" the notification unless they describe the problem, and it's actually somewhat urgent. If something is on fire (again, it's very rare and not endemic in the teams I worked in), sure, I'll be there if I'm near a computer. Otherwise I might as well be out in the mountains ;)