Re: Not office hours? No contact
Some of my colleagues in the US, seem to be under more pressure to be available at all times, although that culture does seem to be slowly changing.
Company policy has recently changed, thanks to you know what, with more emphasis on personal time, breaks etc.
Regarding your last comment, our company policy, and it's very much pushed, is to book all hours worked on a project or piece of work, irrespective of if you get payed for those hours or not, or what your contracted hours are.
My 'people' manager, also monitors total hours being booked, and will come and have a chat if high hours become a regular thing. We've increased team size a couple of times in the last year, due to regular excessive hours. i.e. proof we had enough work to justify bringing new people in.