[aahortwwy]

Or just, like... allow people to have a Sun/Mon weekend (or Mon/Tue, or whatever) instead of Sat/Sun.

There are plenty of people who would be happy with that and plenty more who would accept that arrangement if it came with extra compensation.

Instead, particularly at big companies, people get hired with some generic comp. package and then it's luck of the draw whether you have an on-call rotation or not, and if you do whether it's onerous or not.