[BurningFrog]

It's pretty easy to get two full time programming jobs and do both remotely.

Being in the office at least ensures you're not in another office.

[Johnny555]

Being in the office at least ensures you're not in another office.

How? If I'm willing to work another job while I'm at my first job, no one would know if the code I'm working on my screen belongs to job #1 or job #2.

The employer could use screen monitoring, but then they could do that while I'm at home and see that either I'm working on a second project, or that my computer is idle for long periods of time when I'm supposedly "working".

Though I'm not sure it matters - if I can work 2 jobs and still provide adequate productivity to each employer, then why do they care?

I have so many meetings every day that I'm sure that I couldn't get away with working 2 jobs at once, even when fully remote.

[BurningFrog]

> Though I'm not sure it matters - if I can work 2 jobs and still provide adequate productivity to each employer, then why do they care?

Measuring programming productivity per person is very hard.

Measuring 40 hour attendance is easy.

So while everyone agrees that A would be better, in reality the approximation of B will have to do.

[ewmiller]

Companies often make employees sign agreements stating they won't do work for a second company while on the first company's property or while using the first company's equipment. So if you were going into the office and using one company's computer for two jobs, something like that would probably apply.

[52-6F-62]

Man, I would fail those screen time monitors so badly.

I still work out some things on paper—I think well that way. Other times I have to get up and walk around to work something out in my head. I'd look like a constant slacker.

[matwood]

Sure, you can't have two physical jobs at the same time, but I've worked in multiple offices with people with more than one job. It's almost a given that everyone has some sort of side hustle nowadays.