Some People Work From Home and Secretly Hold Two Full-Time Jobs

People who love working from home enjoy a beautiful flexibility over how they spend their day. This autonomy also offers the irresistible opportunity for some to secretly take on a second full time job. A website called Overemployed encourages this practice as an act of rebellion mainly for white collar workers who are simultaneously underappreciated and underworked. After all, when your job mainly consists of attending useless meetings and pretending to look busy, what's the difference if you take on a second one?

The adaptations that these two-gig workers talk about, from learning to listen in on two Zoom meetings at once to having two different laptops with color coded browsers, are a bit insane. But the idea that isolated remote workers could get away with this for months or even years doesn't really seem that far fetched.

When you read what workers who do it say, it hardly even seems wrong. If they are treated like a number and given busywork, getting a second job to double their salary almost seems like a reasonable response.