[BurningFrog]

Unless your work output is very easy to measure, demanding you show up to work in one of the only ways to ensure you're at least putting in an effort for your employer.

Of course, one of the hardest professions to measure output for is software engineers.

I once worked with a guy who, it was discovered after a long time, actually had two Silicon Valley jobs. That he actually showed up at! He walked/drove between them a few times a day, and managed to keep the illusion up for quite a while.

I'm guessing he has 4 "remote" jobs now :)

[bitL]

I used to have 3 remote dev jobs at once. It was exhausting but doable; my problem before was that no company was utilizing me at more than 30% of what I could sustain and I was upset I was wasting my time. So I had one web dev, one Java and one Deep Learning gig in parallel. The only issue was with conflicting times of meetings. I didn't tell either company I was working for another but had a prior agreement that they wouldn't mind if I did unrelated work elsewhere as well if it didn't affect deliveries for them. I used the extra money I got to pay off my Top 10 MS in ML and MBA.

[8note]

having multiple start up jobs makes some sense, really. you as an employee are making an investment in terms of time in exchange for shares of the business.

the VCs aren't putting all their eggs in one basket with startups, so why should the workers?