Police and employers are cracking down on staff secretly working numerous full-time jobs after a rise in “polygamous working”.
An increase in employees working from home, driven by the pandemic, has led to a surge in staff with full-time jobs in two or more roles without their workplaces being aware.
Websites have been set up advising workers how to juggle employers, while TikTok videos share tips on how to hoodwink employers into believing they are diligent members of the team.
The TikTok user So Ambitious Dom tells his followers how to balance remote nine-to-five jobs with “side hustles”
The latest report by the National Fraud Initiative, set up by the government to detect fraud in the private and public sectors, identified 23 cases in a recent pilot of London boroughs and discovered half a million pounds of overpaid salaries over a period of