Many Remote Workers Secretly Juggle Two Full-Time Jobs—or More

With the pandemic’s turbocharged acceleration of remote-work options, many employees have sought to capitalize on the lack of personal supervision by secretly working two (or more) full-time jobs at once. But while there’s more money to be made, the strategy can bring with it significant tradeoffs, namely to mental health.

On this episode of Bloomberg’s Future of Work, we meet a man who claims to work two jobs at once while also helping others looking to accomplish the same, lucrative feat. Many people who don’t have the luxury of working from home have long had multiple jobs—often with low-pay and no benefits—just to make ends meet. But for so-called knowledge workers, the “overemployment” phenomenon allows them to double what are often already high salaries.