Sure it does - you work 8 hours a day, if you get more tasks to do than time you prioritize and what gets done gets done.
If management want more done they can hire more staff.
Sure you need to find the right company and your yearly compensation might be lower, but your hourly rate will still be around the same and you can have quality of life.
This sounds more like you don't have other fulfilling hobbies to focus on once work finishes for the day, or management is pushing for results so hard that you feel like you need to work off the clock.
The only time I sometimes think of work outside business hours is on bike rides because its otherwise not very mentally stimulating.
It depends on the work. If you're writing a CRUD app then sure, it's easy to check out.
If you're building out new infrastructure, doing a huge refactor or stuck on a tricky problem then anyone that naturally cares about their work will have ideas moving around in their subconscious.
For me personally, I'm building my own software, so my asshole boss likes to push as hard as he can :D
This is where I'm at. The job is to think. You can't frame a house at home in the shower, but you can think about an LDAP solution to get at switches on the other end of a VPN tunnel etc.
I beg to differ. I only do building as a hobby, but the amount of time I spend thinking about how to build things in the shower is pretty much the same as with my tech job.
Again, it may be more about the person than the job
If management want more done they can hire more staff.
Sure you need to find the right company and your yearly compensation might be lower, but your hourly rate will still be around the same and you can have quality of life.