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Fortune
Fortune
Preston Fore

Workers are making over $1 million by secretly holding down multiple gigs—and they’re doing it all within the 40-hour workweek

Man sitting at a desk managing multiple devices at one time (Credit: Dejan Marjanovic—Getty Images)
  • As remote work lingers, employees are doubling, even tripling, their paychecks by secretly juggling multiple full-time jobs—and not even having to pull overtime. The overemployed workers Fortune spoke to are working up to five jobs and pulling in more than $725,000 a year, all within a standard 40-hour week. 

If you’ve grown suspicious of your coworker’s away status on Teams or their refusal to turn their camera on during meetings, there’s a chance they might be trying to earn two salaries at once—and fit it all into a normal workweek.

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