I don’t know what to think about the “overemployment” trend that the pandemic and remote working has ushered in. Most contractors seem to have no mutuality of obligation to their clients and I have friends running two and three gigs who claim their clients are happy. I’ve had contract engineers who were obviously engaging in the practice though, and it drove me up the wall. It just seems so dishonest and at the same…
That's what contractors have been doing since forever. The output requested at a job can often be "not that much". Where you lose me is on employment contracts making this illegal, that's quite a risky proposition. Why not just get jobs as a contractor and be upfront?
Contractors usually don’t have this, which is why it’s perfectly legal for them to run two or three concurrent gigs, but when I’ve engaged a a “full time” contractor who is doing this, their performance - the amount they get done vs what is expected given their day rate - is terrible.