And this applied to both tenured and untenured professors. Don't want to name names but one of the high up profs I chatted with there worked roughly 60 hours a week, 6 10-hour days. I mean, he loved it, and he had a lot of responsibility, but I think it's fair to say it's pretty much all he did. His wife mostly traveled and his daughter was already in undergrad by then.
It is genuinely unclear to me how a new prof could hope to compete with that or make a meaningful contribution when even the "old guard" have given up everything to just work.
I was called by the staffing agency halfway back on my commute and they said "Don't go into work tomorrow. They'll mail you your things."
I'm not sure if I ever got those things back (to be fair, it was only like six things).
Also, I was so insulted that they didn't just tell me in person at the end of the day and let me pack up my stuff and take it home with me. But the staffing agency claimed it was the company's policy to do that with contractors.
...after that I stopped bringing much of anything to the office. Currently my office has a ton of crap in it, but it's a home office :).
I stopped having any personal effects at work. Purely mercenary.
It makes it easier when I get walked out when the C-Suite decides they need higher bonuses.