Overemployed in Silicon Valley: How Scores of Tech Workers Are Secretly Juggling Multiple Jobs

The first rule of Overemployed is that you don’t ever talk about being overemployed. While big-tech companies are implementing hiring freezes, laying off workers, and battening down the hatches as they anticipate an economic recession, a swath of Silicon Valley tech workers—mostly programmers and engineers—are slyly working two, three, or even four jobs at the same time and reaping mind-boggling benefits. They spend their days juggling multiple Zooms simultaneously, using devices called “mouse jigglers” to ensure that their computers do not go to sleep (which would alert their supervisors that something is up), and sitting at 12-foot-long desks that are… Read Full Article