If you have a manager who values you you'll often find you can get away with a lot more than you expect as long as you are still a strong benefit to the team.
Many. Especially smaller shops in laxer countries.
There could be 1m of X and 100m of y, for example
It's not a thing in big faceless corporations, chains, etc, for example (though it can be a thing in places like Google, MS, etc, with the right manager).
But on small businesses (e.g. 2-20 people) it's not uncommon in certain countries (thinking of Southern Europe that I know of) to have an understanding when one needs to leave. There are also practices like "siesta" where places close for a few hours altogether and people have lunch etc.
I was also surprised to see the hours kept in french towns (not Paris, smaller, but still big ones) that e.g. shops opened casually at around 10am, many were closed at lunchtime, and reopened again later, etc.
I'm pretty sure this is the case elsewhere without the "protestant work ethic" (or Japan's version of the same, instilled after lots of humiliating defeats on the hands of the west), e.g. Africa, Latin America, and so on.
But the reality is that most employers are far less friendly, to their own detriment of course... but only in the long term.
Not in the "real world land". Just in the part of real world that you've managed to negotiate for yourself.
Others are more (and others less) lucky.
Like, by definition, things which feel fake cannot be "real" in this sense of the word. Of course though, your reality and my reality are simultaneously happening at the same time.
I once had a manager tell me, "Show up or be fired. We will judge if you deserve to go home or not."
Yes, one should look for a better job elsewhere, and lately the economy has found more room for all of society's laborers regardless of vogue credentials.
However, I can't pay the bills with interviews, and often times I lose value through interviewing.