Workers earn more than a million dollars by keeping several concerts secretly – and they do everything in the 40 -hour work week

The practice became viral on social networks last month when a single software engineer was found both in several Silicon Valley startups, which prompted other companies to check if they had been victims of similar deception.

However, maintaining more than one concert at a time – sometimes even up to five – may be larger than some companies are waiting for it. After all, the continuing prevalence of remote work has made more difficult for employers to know exactly what their workers do.

“If you have worked in American companies, it’s a lot of stuffed animals and not a lot of substance,” said a worker who spoke anonymously with Fortune. They are currently working on three concerts, winning around $ 725,000.

At one point, they balanced five roles in total, which, according to them, was made possible by improving the productivity of AI, with new tools that ever send emails, compile meeting notes and write deliverables – and do everything under relatively normal working hours.

“At this point, it has become a game for me, how many jobs can I do it right away and remain healthy? they remembered.

The maximum of jobs is certainly paid. disabled. While juggling five at a time, they estimated that the rapprochement of more than a million dollars a year.

“I have no loyalty to a company,” they added.

No regrets to do the work of others

Fortune spoke to a second worker who currently occupies two jobs in the health technology industry. And despite being a full -time worker who earns a combined amount of nearly $ 250,000, he is able to finish all the work within 40 hours. They have no worries about the distance from the jobs of those who struggle on the rocky labor market today.

“They hire me for my knowledge and my expertise, not for hours worked,” they said Fortune.

And although more of a job can lift the eyebrows the next time you have to put your work history on a curriculum vitae, they said they would simply write the best full -time role they had at a period in progress to avoid having to respond to occupy two jobs at a time. However, the demand for talents in the health technology industry has not done many problems.

“I’m not going to look for jobs, the jobs come to pick me up,” they said. “To be honest, I do not remember the last time I went to apply for a job. And since 2017, I had four different positions.”

In fact, they said they received so many companies recruiting companies trying to seize talents, companies have practically allowed over-work behavior.

The holding of more than one job could be legal, but some people like Lewis Maleh, CEO of the management agency Bentley Lewis, do not recommend that people imitate behavior.

“If someone does a full -time perm job and is paid accordingly, he should not play another full -time perm role unless the company agrees with that,” said Maleh before Fortune. “I don’t think it’s ethical and will cost you on the road if you are discovered. If you do some part -time concerts, this is of course a different story.”

A trend that could continue, but maybe not for long

Although both sources Fortune The employees are fully rooted, some users of the Surepeillage Reddit community have deemed possible to secretly work on a second job on site elsewhere. But overall, the work of several full -time works has been activated by the ability to work at home.

Despite calls to workers to return to the office of Fortune 500 companies like JPMorgan Chase, remote work is always common. In fact, 33% of all workers worked at home in 2024, slightly decreased by 35% in 2023, according to the last survey on the use of American time of the US Labor Ministry.

Remote work has remained much more than Jerry Jacobs, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, expected – but now the bosses improve slowly to assess the realities of workers’ productivity.

“More (more distance work), the more I think people will get used to it as being, you know, a way people work,” explains Jacobs Fortune. “And I think the longer it lasts, the more you know, people will become good to manage it.”

And consequently, it does not expect the tendency to have several continuous full -time jobs – but rather something with which people experience.

“It is difficult to convince people of your first job, that you really do your job, if you spend a lot of time and energy to your second job,” he adds.

Likewise, Lonnie Golden, professor of economics and work-work-work in Penn State University Abington, thinks that working more than one full-time job has the potential to grow, but it remains to be seen what it will really look like.

“The question is: ethics, productivity, rules and regulations will they catch up with it?”