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Unless it's expressly forbidden by a contract, I don't think most people have any issue with minor clear non-conflict-of-interest consulting/freelance work. It's really hard to see how that works with full-time jobs at competing companies.

As long as there's no conflict of interest between the companies, what's the issue? How is this any different from someone taking a job at all of those companies sequentially?

Use a different laptop for each job?

Seriously though... this is ridiculous but it's 100% the fault of the employer for over-hiring and bad management.

Working 2 jobs ≠ leaking confidential data between them.