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Switch teams or departments, or mention to your manager that you're getting discouraged by how the incentives are set up in your company. Most managers are happy to have a hard working team member, but not at the cost of their other 5 good team members leaving or getting discouraged.
1. If there is a direct correlation between hours worked and productivity for the team, then compensation is not relative.
2. To the degree that emails late at night is cast as toxic office politics, so are attempts to normalize the productive efforts of the coworker.
3. Pathologizing a coworker as 'workaholic' delegitmates the person and their values. It tends to provide an excuse for treating the individual poorly 'for their own good' rather than accepting the individual as what they are: a hard worker.
Hint: emails to execs throughout the night are mostly unwelcome.
Just as you (hopefully) get to choose how many hours you work, your coworkers also get to choose how many hours they work.
I'd ask yourself two questions:
1: Are you happy with your current work/life balance?
2: Can you achieve your career goals at your current workplace while maintaining your desired work/life balance?
If the answer to either of those questions is "no", you should have a conversation with your manager.
If your company's evaluation doesn't work that way, you need to have a talk with management about why it should.
(Also, if your co-worker is working long hours but not actually more productive, and your management can't tell the difference between those two but you can, you may need to have a conversation with management about that too.)
Well your relative performance is worse, so either tolerate that or work harder. Nobody's work-life balance is someone else's decision to make.
Unless one is self employed with at least emergency funds in the bank (or better yet, "fuck you" money), I can say with almost certainty that one's work-life balance is someone else's decision to make in America. It has been at every single job I've ever worked at, even remote ones, and it certainly is the case in this post.
Well your relative performance is worse, so either tolerate that or work harder. Nobody's work-life balance is someone else's decision to make.
That is a very american attitude, I'd say =) I consider it a management duty to stop people from working too much (which is a rather european attitude :D).
It always amazes me that most people here don't know what Mayday is, or why other countries have it.