HACKER Q&A
📣 frabjoused

Thoughts on Overemployment?


I just went through a rough case this week where one of my employees was overemployed FT by three companies and pushing commits to these throughout the workday. When confronted he denied it despite overwhelming evidence, gaslighted me by painting me as untrusting and used that as an excuse to quit.

Is it worth hunting down this type of behavior? I honestly don’t have a problem with someone having a side gig, but when it reduces their attention to just being able to do the bare minimum asked of them it seems very unethical.

  👤 billy99k Accepted Answer ✓
How did you find out it was three companies?

I don't see how you could possibly give your full attention to one job when working for multiple at the same time.

I also wouldn't want an employee accidentally committing proprietary code/logins, which could be a huge security issue.

a 'side gig' to me means working on it outside of working hours, not at the same time.

This is just dishonest.