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The drive to get people back into the office isn't due to any sunk cost on commercial real estate — it's a strategy to prevent workers from working multiple jobs simultaneously.

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Is there any evidence that this is actually happening and going undetected in large enough numbers for it to be rational to allow the possibility to dictate the official remote/not-remote policy of large companies? This feels more like a meme that circulates among management/executive types than it does an actual problem in the real world.

The thing about executives is... they don't need evidence, they can operate on feelings. And there's certanly enough of overemployed people around to have managers convinced its a problem.

It has a pretty active subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/

While this is happening, I don't think it's happening at a large enough scale to matter or long enough timespan. Most people burn out after a year or so of working multiple jobs. It's posted all the time in /overemployed.

Where I live the act of being "over employed" is considered fraud, and can land serious penalties. Because it is fraud, when your employment agreement stipulates that you will not divide your time in some manner.

https://mcmillan.ca/insights/employment-and-privacy-implicat...

That was just getting fired for cause homie. If they catch you, you are definitely getting fired.

That's all well and good until you're the second job people are working.

And then you notice that they don't produce any work and fire them. What's so hard about that?

If you didn't notice before, you won't notice now. If they were producing enough work, why would you want them to leave?

When did all the CEOs meet to decide this? I missed that one.

There's a large whatsapp group containing hundreds of Silicone Valley CEOs. I imagine they keep up with gossip and coordinate policies in that group.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38583253

It's amazing how many people in this thread are saying "it's not X, it's this one single issue Y."

This is a complex, multifaceted issue that doesn't have one root cause or solution. Claiming otherwise shows extreme inexperience or lack of imagination.

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