Yes. If they didn't have to spend every waking hour at work, things like raising a family would be conceivable. Everything is connected and that's part of the reason why Japan's population pyramid is a disaster.

And German office culture is even less presentee-ist than American. Unless you have a relatively high salary, you have a 35-40 hour contract full time, with a lot of us on part time contracts. Pre-Covid, we really were only around for those set hours, with a few flextime accumulated here and there, then burned off within the year. Even with home office, people still tend to stick to their contract hours.

Your employer would be a bit suspicious if you were routinely in the office or logged into the VPN longer than you were booking…