How Some People Work Two Full-Time Jobs From Home
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How common is holding two full-time remote jobs and who is doing it?
I'm J.R. Whelan for The Wall Street Journal. For a lot of people who've been working from home over the past year and a half, managing the workload of a full-time job without having to put in extra hours is challenging enough. Yet there are some people who've figured out how to juggle two full-time jobs at the same time.
how much time you have to yourself, like the lack of transparency around what you do. These are things that certain workers just have a lot of and at certain companies and in certain kinds of roles, and then some people take advantage of it.
So how do people pull this off? And before you go getting any ideas, is it even allowed? The Wall Street Journal's work and life columnist, Rachel Feinzig, talked with some of these double dippers, and she'll join us after the break.
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Gig work has been on the rise for years, but holding down two full-time jobs, that's something else. A handful of people working from home have found ways to simultaneously work for two companies, all while keeping it a secret. So what happens if they get caught? Our Work and Life columnist, Rachel Feinzig, wrote about this, and she joins us now to talk about it. Rachel, thanks for coming on the show. Thanks so much for having me.
What workplace changes made simultaneous full-time remote jobs possible?
So Rachel, you know, all we hear about since people began working from home last year is that they're putting in a lot more hours than they did when they were in the office. You know, the endless Zoom calls and they're tethered to their laptops and their phones. How can people possibly have time for a second full-time job?
It's a really good point. And certainly when I was doing a lot of this reporting, I just kept thinking like, this doesn't have much in common with my own life or personal experience of working around the clock from home. But I talked to a professor about how this is kind of like it's not an evenly distributed privilege of work. It's kind of an inequity. How much time you have to yourself, like the lack of transparency around what you do. These are things that certain workers just have a lot of and at certain companies and in certain kinds of roles. And then some people take advantage of it. And then, of course, the rest of us are just kind of swamped under endless Zoom calls.
You know, the fact that anyone could do this really speaks to the ways that work has changed over the past year, even if you aren't trying to pull off something like this double employment thing.
Definitely. And it has really changed the freedom that employees feel, right? And I would like to specify these were mostly white-collar workers. A lot of them were in kind of tech jobs or tech-adjacent jobs. I don't think this is, again, I don't think this is necessarily true or an opportunity for everyone. In terms of the workday changing, I mean, one worker told me that you have more freedom. You can say no to a meeting, even as maybe we've seen meetings multiply on our calendars, which I've written about.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:38
2
How common is holding two full-time remote jobs and who is doing it?
0:38–2:16
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What workplace changes made simultaneous full-time remote jobs possible?
2:16–3:59
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Are employees secretly working two jobs allowed to do it under the law?
3:59–5:44
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How do people technically manage two overlapping workdays without burning out?
5:44–7:44
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What tactics do double-jobbers use to avoid detection in meetings?
7:44–8:44
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