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Ask HN: Is every contracted developer over-employed nowadays?

I'm from eastern Europe and everyone I know is working 2-3 hours instead of 8 hours/day even though they are paid for 8 hours, but for multiple companies. If you sum it up on contracts they work 24 hours/day :)

Lots of dev forums talk about this and encourage others do the same, even juniors, just to earn more because their 2 hours or work is better than 8 hours of their colleagues from western countries.

I don't want to judge the morality of doing this, but is this that spread only in this part of the world since the pandemic or everywhere?

37 points make_it_sure 4 years ago 78 comments

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