Reply to post: Re: Not office hours? No contact

This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

Boothy

Re: Not office hours? No contact

Yup. I've done years of call out in the past, company phone (pager before that!). But I got payed an hourly rate for being available, and then an overtime rate if I actually got called, and to cover the time I had to actually do something.

I was given the option many years ago to drop off the on-call rota, and took that option (I wanted my life back!). Still had the company phone for a good few years afterwards, but it was always turned off at the end of the work day, and turned back on the next work day.

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