overemployed
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From overemploy + -ed.
Verb
[edit]overemployed
- simple past and past participle of overemploy
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overemployed (comparative more overemployed, superlative most overemployed)
- Employed for more hours than full-time work.
- 2003, John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America, →ISBN:
- People who remain overemployed tolerate longer hours because they either expect their overemployment to be brief (such as temporary care-giving), or figure that part-time or reduced hours status involves too large a sacrifice in terms of benefit coverage or job status.
- 2006, Jean-Yves Boulin, Michel Lallement, Decent Working Time: New Trends, New Issues, →ISBN, page 227:
- Those working on a regular daytime shift, the vast majority of US workers, have a slightly raised likelihood of being overemployed compared to those working the evening shift (the reference group).
- 2014, Itzhak Harpaz, Raphael Snir, Heavy Work Investment, →ISBN:
- Female workers appear to be significantly more at risk of being overemployed than their male counterparts, on the order of about 4 percent greater likelihood (which is reduced only negligibly by inclusion of job characteristics as controls).
- 2015, Morris Altman, Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, →ISBN, page 486:
- In part this is so because the percentage of workers who are overemployed tends to pale in comparison to the proportion who are underemployed, particularly in the United States.
- (Internet slang) Working multiple jobs at the same time, often without the knowledge of one's employers.
- 2022 September 27, Fadeke Adegbuyi, “The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job”, in Wired[1], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:
- [Sarah] Murphy is one of the "overemployed"—employees secretly working more than one full-time job, aided by the rise of remote work ushered in by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- 2022 October 17, Chris Westfall, “Troubling Trend Of Overemployment: Can A Side Hustle Get You Fired?”, in Forbes[2], New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:
- With recent posts like "7 Tips to Avoid Lifestyle Creep When Making $600K", and "$1.2M with 5 IT Jobs", it’s easy to see the appeal of becoming overemployed when people are overwhelmed.
Derived terms
[edit]- OE (abbreviation)