[whoisthemachine]

If you're salaried and you too often work more than nine to five, then you are necessarily devaluing your work. I don't see how devaluing yourself aligns your incentives with the company's incentives, whose incentives are to clearly get as much work done for as little money as possible.

[slt2021]

the current meta game is: you work over-time to deliver more and exceed expectations, then you get promotion and +money

if you don't expect promotion, then there is no incentive to over-work and overdeliver.

This is how modern tech companies get ahead of legacy corps: hire young high energy and high capability folks, and let me compete with each other for tiny pool of promotion money. As a result everyone will overwork, but you have to pay only to a few who gets promoted.