> Sometimes my work will give me problems which I'll continue to think about even outside of my customary working hours. Sometimes the solution will come to me

> Sometimes my work will give me problems which I'll continue to think about even outside of my customary working hours. Sometimes the solution will come to me as I'm doing something else. Does that mean I'm working 168-hour weeks? If you are working on them for 168 hours per week, then yes it does. > I doubt my employer would. No, and nor should it. They can't and should not control what you do or think about outside of work hours. Presumably they aren't asking you to do any of that. "But our brains can't just turn off" -- sure, and a lot of blue collar work has a significant cerebral component too and people think about what they've done or will do on their time off. Your body is also tired and worn down on your days off after hard manual labor. Working in public facing jobs can take a strain on mental health. Etc. None of that is explicitly accounted for as line items, it is just taken as a cost of the job and presumably implicitly factored in to cost of labor as part of supply and demand if nothing else.