"said no company ever"

Interestingly my company keep an eye on what hours we log and if I go over 35 hours regularly they start to tell me to log off earlier and encourage me to go for runs / step away and speak to my family during the day. Not all companies are just looking for a pound of flesh 🙂 Most weeks I do 8 hour days Mon-Thurs and then finish at lunch on Friday. 😄

In the US, employers try to get employees to work under 40 so they don't have to pay benefits (non-salaried).

Well that sucks!

our company pays benefits for >= 0.5 FTE