Why should you deceive your head

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It was only yesterday that we were concerned about quitters quitters: workers who simply do their job, instead of putting extra hours not paid?

Today’s anxiety refers to the worker of polygamous workers, who describes someone who occupies more than one job, also known as double work or excess.

Unlike polygamy (marriage between three or more people), it is done without the consent of the other person in their relationship: their head. The lateral discomfort, made around the edges of a work or concert work, which involves multiple roles without a principal entrepreneur, are, on the contrary, a sign of a good honest grinder.

This year, the Department of the Environment, Foods and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom revealed that one of its full -time employees was also in staff in the Department of Health and Social Assistance. The National Fraud Initiative also published a report on the phenomenon, which began to investigate in the midst of the concern in the pandemic that work from home created fertile conditions to deceive the head. A pilot on London Councils identified 23 cases and £ 500,000 in excess wages, followed by a commitment to investigate the country.

When I first heard the term, I thought it was just another boring aspect for the lives so apologized through (three -way relationships) or polyules (multiple relationships). It seems that every two months he writes that Brooklynite writes that they saved their marriage by opening it. Looking for a polygamous work in Tiktok, I discovered many serious stories of the practices of doing special time for both your husband and your girlfriend.

So it was a certain relief that this was only the last expression for two times. My main question for polygamous workers, however, is the same as polygamous relationships. How do someone have time for this? It seems exhausting. A head is bad enough; How to manage two, while hiding the tracks?

A woman on social media explained that she addressed the challenge by simply giving both jobs 40 percent of effort, as many of her co -workers did. Maybe this is better than alternative. The opposite, the opposite of the burning, describes when a non -working worker becomes a catatonic with boredom. Others completely detach from work. More than a decade ago, a US software engineer disassociated that he outsourced His work in China for a fifth of his remuneration and spent his days browsing cats videos on YouTube.

Some have suggested that the way to avoid double work is to order a return to the office. But should all the problems of the workplace be resolved by repression when it comes to working from home? Perhaps it is also worth considering productive work on staff, with clear goals and solid remuneration.

There is one aspect I find encouraging -me about polygamous work, however. It is evidence of a prosperous culture of neologisms to describe variations on ancient work patterns.

Gen Z – Cohort born between 1997 and 2012 – did not invent the unevenness, the term popularized by the novel by the author Douglas Cupland of 1991, Generation X: Stories for an accelerated culture. Polygamic workers, in fact, can be their 30, 40 and 50.

But around the world, a vigorous debate about the workplace takes place among young people on social media. According to Bobby Duffy, an expert in generational differences, this has been helped by a “massive change of information environment”, which allows us to share “convincing individual case studies, of people who have a breakdown about their work from 9 to 5”.

In this context, new expressions such as “smoking” and “masking tasks” are gaining traction. They are, says writer and lexicographer Tony Thorne, “self -consciously created and promoted as memes”, designed to viral. Thorne believes that this suggests that young people who use them are not lazy, but “more resistant to accept traditional notions of work, jobs and work label”. It may not be a surprise, as they grew after Brexit and pandemic.

Polygam work can be unfair. But such a prosperous culture of the neologisms of the workplace is, surely, evidence of reflective creativity. This is the kind of thing that likes one boss, as long as they do not find out the other.