Overemployed
Secretly holding two or more full-time remote jobs at the same time, without disclosing the others to any of the employers, in order to multiply one's salary.
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Secretly holding two or more full-time remote jobs at the same time, without disclosing the others to any of the employers, in order to multiply one's salary. The practice was popularised by the r/overemployed subreddit and the overemployed.com community, founded in 2021 by an anonymous tech worker after the pandemic normalised work-from-home. Practitioners (often called "OEs") rotate between meetings, use separate laptops and phone numbers, and coach each other on calendar management and how to handle the inevitable scheduling clash. The legality varies by jurisdiction and contract — exclusivity and moonlighting clauses are common — but in most US states it is a contractual rather than criminal issue.
I've been overemployed for eighteen months now — two full-stack jobs, four laptops, and I've already paid off the mortgage.
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- OE71%
(intransitive, Internet slang) To be overemployed (working more than one job simultaneously).
- stealth working68%
Secretly working a second remote job from the same home office — not disclosed to either employer. Forums are full of these workers comparing notes.
- featherbedding58%
(US) The employment of more workers than is necessary, typically because of labor union rules (or sometimes deals with organized crime, a government, etc), especially upon the introduction of new technology.
- Lazy Girl Job56%
A type of role — coined and popularised by TikTok creator Gabrielle Judge in spring 2023 — that is fully remote, low-stakes, easy to perform, pays well enough to live on, and ends cleanly at the end of the workday. Lazy girl jobs are typically mid-level individual-contributor positions in operations, customer success, marketing or admin: meaningful enough to take pride in, but with no on-call, no team to manage and no expectation of after-hours work. The framing is explicitly post-girlboss — Judge's pitch is that women shouldn't have to grind themselves into burnout to be considered serious — and went viral in late 2023 with millions of "what's your lazy girl job?" replies.
- Quiet Promotion55%
The workplace pattern in which an employee is steadily handed more responsibility — bigger projects, direct reports, the work of a colleague who quit — without the matching change in title, pay or formal recognition. Coined as the mirror image of "quiet firing" and "quiet quitting", the phrase went viral in 2022–23 as workers compared notes on LinkedIn and TikTok about being praised as "indispensable" while their compensation stayed flat. Quiet promotion is treated as a soft form of exploitation, particularly common in understaffed teams where managers rely on high performers to absorb work that should justify a new headcount.