> most salaried employees are not paid on the basis of hours worked In my experience salaried IC's in the UK are explicitly contracted for 40 hour weeks, exclu

> most salaried employees are not paid on the basis of hours worked In my experience salaried IC's in the UK are explicitly contracted for 40 hour weeks, excluding pensions, bonus, shares, etc. It is only when you get on managerial tracts and C-Level that you have some form of hours exemption which means no OT and that implicitly you 'could' work 24/7.