Dunno. My work has its issues, but there's a real cultural push at the moment to limit your overtime and keep work/life balance in mind. Guess they burned out too many people fifteen years ago. There was a time when it was a huge media thing and that seemed to put sufficient pressure on them when individual complaints meant nothing.
There are still people who don't listen, though, and the sense I get is they have drastically different experiences at the company depending on how well they're able to moderate things.
Me, work was a refuge when I didn't know what I'd be walking into at home, so it's kind of been a non-issue. Like, working certain types of overtime is a "simply can't do it" and nobody's made the mistake of trying to force it. And now with limited childcare and even more limited local support it's the same thing. I'm lucky to be valuable enough to them to get away with it.
But the request ... becoming demand... to do more and more can get at people's psychological weaknesses. And that can maybe only be addressed at the source. Unless one can create a cultural movement on demand, I guess, but there are already so many people trying to do that that it just adds to the noise.
So yeah. It's hard to say.
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