To be fair, it can also work out the other way, if your employer is decent. I'm on salary, and I'm only expected to get the work done that's on my plate, and r

To be fair, it can also work out the other way, if your employer is decent. I'm on salary, and I'm only expected to get the work done that's on my plate, and respond to emails etc within a reasonable time frame (eg, if I get an email at 4pm on a Friday, and I don't respond to it till 11:30am Monday, that's fine so long as it's not an emergency). If I get my work done and there's still time in the day, I'm not expected to invent busywork for myself. But I do recognize that I'm extremely lucky to have the kind of conditions I do here.