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> the only reward for hard work is more work.

Yup. I work 35-40 hours a week. I do not put work stuff on my personal devices, I do not open my work laptop at home. This isn't something I negotiated or made explicit, it's just what I do. No one has ever objected to my work or output and I keep getting raises every year.

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Not possible with jobs with on-call responsibilities (most senior software engineering jobs in my experience).

What I did with oncall was taking the time back from incidents, like working only the afternoon after a midnight page that screwed up my sleep. It's not like I'd have been productive anyway, and people will understand if you cancel a meeting at 2am.

The real annoying part of it is not being able to detach from work the weeks I was oncall, and having to plan travel to ensure that acting in time remains feasible.

Now,if a job requires permanent on-call that is just a bs workaround from having the organisational structure to properly deal with emergencies.

You're totally right, I do the same and on the other hand, but less relevant here, I also don't connect to personal web sites on my work laptop.

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