If you're an exempt salaried employee, then there is no real distinction between "your own time" and "the company's time".
I get paid the same no matter how many hours a week I work.
On rare occasion, I've connected to our VPN or sent some emails outside of normal hours because something came up, with no effect on my salary. I'm lucky in that these occasions are rare, but some people are not so lucky. In the other direction, we have a policy that PTO has to be billed in 4-hour increments, and anything that consumes less than that doesn't have to be reported, such as an early-morning doctor's appointment that takes one hour. Is that doctor's appointment "on company time" because it was too short to bill PTO for?
Does it count as being "on company time" if I'm looking at my phone when an email notification comes up because one of my co-workers CC'd me on something? Is it "on my own time" when I'm sharing memes back and forth with a coworker on our Slack?
I get paid the same no matter how many hours a week I work.
On rare occasion, I've connected to our VPN or sent some emails outside of normal hours because something came up, with no effect on my salary. I'm lucky in that these occasions are rare, but some people are not so lucky. In the other direction, we have a policy that PTO has to be billed in 4-hour increments, and anything that consumes less than that doesn't have to be reported, such as an early-morning doctor's appointment that takes one hour. Is that doctor's appointment "on company time" because it was too short to bill PTO for?
Does it count as being "on company time" if I'm looking at my phone when an email notification comes up because one of my co-workers CC'd me on something? Is it "on my own time" when I'm sharing memes back and forth with a coworker on our Slack?