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The Story

The rise of 'polygamous workers'

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You could say one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic was the chance to work from home, avoid the daily commute, and get a better work-life balance. But, for some hardy souls, being out of the office and away from the boss’s scrutiny is a chance to get a second job, or even a third... or forth. But how are they doing it, and is it even legal?


This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory


Guest: Ben Ellery 

Host: Luke Jones

Producer: Shabnam Grewal 

Further reading: The rise of ‘polygamous workers’ — and efforts to catch them out

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0:00.0

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0:01.3

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0:35.8

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

0:39.6

I'm Luke Jones.

0:46.1

There was a social worker who was working for Hampshire County Council,

0:51.4

but he was also working for South End, where he was also a social worker.

0:55.6

And he was on a team's call to Hampshire. While he was on that call, hadn't realized that his

1:01.9

microphone was not muted and answered the phone saying, oh, hello, welcome to South End Children's

1:09.3

Services, which raised a few eyebrows among his

1:12.4

colleagues, and he was dismissed from both jobs. Social worker is a pretty important job,

1:20.2

and it just kind of made you think, you know, what's going on here?

1:28.6

What seems to be going on is some people are complimenting their full-time job secretly with another.

1:36.9

Sometimes multiple extra jobs.

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