Being “overemployed” is a new, on-the-down-low trend of being employed by multiple companies without each company knowing. You can accept a salary for the exchange of only being employed for that employer. But is this ethical?

One says: “It just felt like I had no control,” he told me. “I didn’t like that I was under the whims of a company that gets to decide whether I’m employed or not.”

Helping them evade detection is a guy who goes by the pseudonym Isaac, who started the blog Overemployed in 2021 to share his secrets as the OG overemployed worker. Today there are some 300,000 members of the community on Discord and Reddit who celebrate one another’s successes, commiserate on their failures, and swap secrets for fooling their bosses.

There’s no way around the fact that they’re breaking the rules: In exchange for a salary, they promised not to work for anyone else. Did they feel bad about breaking that promise?

Article from Business Insider

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