One sure sign the market's picking up:
The Wall Street Journal ran a "free feature" today, "Keeping Your Job Hunt Secret Is Harder Now -- But Here's How to Do It."
The most obvious way to sidestep your boss is to job hunt on your telework days. And to use your personal computer and personal e-mail accounts to avoid any corporate IT monitoring.
This story reminded me of one I wanted to write years ago at Home Office Computing, when we first started writing about telework. I tried to find full time teleworkers (remote workers) who balanced two full time jobs, each kept a secret from the other--like those crazy men who keep two families only a couple of towns apart? The guys whose wives meet at the funeral?
Unfortunately, I hit a wall and had to drop the story. Crazy idea, right? I'm not so sure. I bet there are a few folks out there pulling this off--or something similar. I've heard of folks who start home businesses while keeping the corporate job, but never anybody who keeps two full time corporate jobs, or one corporate job and one perhaps more casual job with a small business? Maybe remote sales people?
If anybody has a lead, please let me know...If there's an underbelly to telework, a seamy side, I sure would love to find it.
In the meantime, I'll ask Nicole Belson Goluboff, our new telework legal columnist, about the legal ramifications of such an arrangement.
Check out her debut column, "Making sense of the Family and Medical Leave Act."
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