I give up.

Just work seven days a week, 12 hour days, and on call every moment. Die 20 years early from stress, anxiety, and depression. Burn out and end up in the hospital. Be meat for the grinder.

Meanwhile, I'm going to shut my laptop closed at 5pm, never installed Slack on my phone, and if someone needs me, they can show up to my house and ring the bell if it's that important. Good luck.

This reads like more overworked salaried employees mentally justifying spending their own time on work. Once you start setting the expectation that you’ll spend your own time doing work that couldn’t be finished during the week, that’s what your employer is going to expect. And may also expect of your colleagues. I’m sure they’ll appreciate that…

Personally, I log off at 5pm friday and don’t think about anything work related until after at least one coffee somewhere in the vicinity of 9am the next monday.

> "liberation"

It's more like inviting the troops besieging your walls inside and celebrating because "we have less enemies outside the walls to deal with now!"

It's the thin end of the wedge, you give it an inch and it will take a mile. The productivity boost you gain will quickly become an expectation, and then you'll be finding "liberation" by working on Saturday to get ahead of Sunday.