Secretly working a second remote job from the same home office — not disclosed to either employer.
Secretly working a second remote job from the same home office — not disclosed to either employer. Forums are full of these workers comparing notes.
"Making $380k stealth working two FAANG jobs. For now."
Stealth working is doing your full job from a different location than your employer knows about, like working remotely while pretending to be in the office. Not directly concerning but ethically questionable; worth conversations about transparency with employers. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
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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.
A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.
Doing only the work explicitly required by your job description — no unpaid overtime, no extra projects. Technically still employed, mentally checked out. The 2022 Gen Z labor mantra that gave HR departments a quiet panic. Productive in moderation; corrosive in extremes.
Stealth working is doing your full job from a different location than your employer knows about, like working remotely while pretending to be in the office. Not directly concerning but ethically questionable; worth conversations about transparency with employers. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
Stealth working is informal workforce vocabulary describing the practice of secretly working from undisclosed locations, typically remote when expected to be in-office. Use in workplace and career writing. Formal equivalent: "undisclosed remote work," "unsanctioned location work." Common non-native mistake: confusing with stealth wealth (hidden wealth signalling). Stealth working is specifically about location deception. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
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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.