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That was the only thing we were worried about a quiet ban on smoking yesterday.
Today’s anxiety is about the hard work of polygamous workers, explaining people who work multiple jobs (also known as double or overemployment).
Unlike polygamy (marriage of three or more people), it is done without the consent of others in their relationship: their boss. Side hustles performed around the edge of work and gig work with multiple roles without a major employer are, by contrast, seen as signs of good and honest grinders.
This year, the UK’s Environment, Food and Rural departments revealed that one of their full-time employees is also participating in staff from the Department of Health and Social Care. The National Fraud Initiative has also published a report on the phenomenon. They launched an investigation amid pandemic concerns that working from home has tricked his boss into creating fertile conditions. A London Council pilot identified 23 cases, £500,000 overpaid salaries were discovered, followed by a national pledge to investigate.
When I first heard the term, I thought it was another boring aspect of the life of a disciple of thru (three-directional relationships) or multi-environmental (multiple relationships). Every other month, some write that the Brooklynians saved their marriage by opening it. Looking for a job in polygamy in Tiktok, I have discovered many serious explanations about the practicality of making special time for both your husband and girlfriend.
So it was reassuring that this was just the latest expression to dim your employer. However, my main question for polygamous workers is the same as the polygamous relationship. How does someone have time for this? It seems tiring. One boss is bad enough. How to manage two while hiding a truck?
One woman on social media explained that she approached the challenge by simply giving both jobs to 40% effort, as many of her fellow workers did anyway. This is probably better than the alternative. Boa-out, the opposite of burnout, describes when employed workers become bored and tense. Others are completely separate from work. Over a decade ago, one US software engineer was so freed that he outsourced his work to China for a fifth of his wages and viewed cat videos on YouTube.
Some have suggested that a way to prevent dual work is to require a return to the office. But do all workplace issues need to be resolved by cracking down on work from home? Perhaps it’s worth considering doing productive work with staff with clear objectives and solid wages.
However, there is one aspect that I support about polygamy work. It is evidence of the thriving culture of new research to explain variations in old work patterns.
Cohort Z, born between 1997 and 2012, did not invent Slacking, the term popularized by author Douglas Capland’s 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Anacelated Culture. In fact, polygamous workers could be in their 30s, 40s, or 50s.
However, around the world, there is a heated debate about the workplace among young people on social media. This was helped by a “substantially altered information environment,” according to Bobby Duffy, an expert on generational differences. This allows you to share “Accompanied Individual Case Study – Collapse About 9-5 Work.”
In this context, new expressions such as “quiet smoking cessation” and “task masking” gain traction. Author and lexicon editor Tony Thorne says that it was “self-consciously coined and promoted like a meme.” Thorne believes this suggests that young people who use them are not lazy and are “resistant to embracing traditional concepts of work, workplace and work etiquette.” It’s probably not surprising given that they grew up in the aftermath of Brexit and the pandemic.
Polygamy behavior may be dishonest. But the thriving culture of neologism in such workplaces is certainly evidence of thoughtful creativity. This is something your boss normally likes.
