Soham Parekh, a software engineer, is at the center of a growing scandal: he allegedly held multiple full-time jobs simultaneously without any of the companies knowing. One of his former employers, fintech startup Informed, is now suing him for fraud and “time theft.”
The case is blowing up because it exposes a bigger question: what does it really mean to work full-time in a remote, async, AI-powered world?
Is over-employment unethical? Or is it just the natural outcome of how knowledge work is evolving?

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A software engineer is being sued for allegedly working multiple full-time jobs simultaneously without disclosure, raising questions about employment ethics in the remote work era. The case highlights the evolving nature of knowledge work and whether traditional employment expectations still apply in an async, AI-powered workplace.

Is being over-employed unethical or just efficient?

I don’t think the action itself is unethical, but doing it successfully without compromising the work you’re paid to be doing is quite hard I imagine.
From what I understood, he was not fulfilling his duties at a lot of the places he was employed, which is what sparked this controversy.

It is not unethical or immoral as long as you do all work asked and clock in all hours.

Hey Soham, is it you?
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I got zero ethics and morality, money is my god

I dont think its unethical. Tech industry created so unbearable environment for devs, that its logical that devs started to exploit the system.
Just smile nicely to your manager (or multiple managers) and you will be fine.