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Is it possible to work from home for two bosses?
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Workers say doing decent work at two jobs pays far better than excelling at one. But the actual number of employees holding two jobs is far rarer than suggested, says the writer.
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Sarah Green Carmichael
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There is a bogeyman lurking behind the push to bring workers back to the office: the remote employee who is secretly working a second full-time job, not by working 80-hour weeks, but by toggling between Job 1 and Job 2.
Over the past two years, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, the BBC and many others have run exposes of these “overemployed” people.
