An implicit assumption for an executive is that you actually work beyond your 40hr because your 9-5 is going to be jammed full with meetings, so you need extra

An implicit assumption for an executive is that you actually work beyond your 40hr because your 9-5 is going to be jammed full with meetings, so you need extra time to go through all the approvals, planning, and random stuff that comes up. They are also supposed to be leaders and exemplars for the rest of the company. It would be extremely demotivating for me as an employee to see an executive having one or more side hustles, if they didn’t didn’t also explicitly set the tone in the company or their organization that they encouraged employees to also do this, or if there were ever any kind of overtime/crunch/extra work. For example I think I’d be quite frustrated being a senior exec at twitter seeing the CEO running another company, being on multiple boards, doing advising, etc (since in that case Dorsey probably wasn’t even putting in 30hr a week). Even as a junior employee, it sets a bad tone that the company is in coast mode, the CEO doesn’t really care because he’s working on the new shiny, etc.