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The greatest danger from this is the effect on others as an unspoken expectation. No matter how many times it is repeated, by the University 'sausage' machine's (in)human resources department and policies to Deans and heads of dept that there's no compulsion to work long, often excessive hours.
Staff and students, especially post grad students, pick up on this as a subliminal requirement to work too many hours adversely affecting their health, both (especially) mental and physical. That the Science Council has produced a report:- Technicians: Providing frontline and vital support for student mental health and wellbeing https://sciencecouncil.org/technicians-provide-unseen-vital-frontline-support-for-student-mental-health-and-wellbeing-report-reveals/, illustrates excessive working hours expectations are a factor, and it's often technicians who have to deal with the student, and initial response to any incident caused.
That so many academics end up becoming their job title and lose all reality beyond it is unsurprising and the further up the greasy pole they clamber the worse it gets, an item on keeping up with academic literature published in the THE illustrates some of the issues too. Even Nature has touched on it recently, with an item on refusing to do peer reviews during vacation.
And with the UK University employers failing to keep pay in line with inflation why should staff be expected to give even more for less? The current under the radar offer of 2% if the unions don't consult the members and just accept without mandate, over the 'public' offer of 1.8% shows the level of continued exploitation of staff in the sector.