The pandemic underscored, for many folks, just how much time and energy we devote to our jobs...and whether it's worth it
found that 50 percent of Gen Zers and 44 percent of Millennials had participated in freelance work, while the numbers for Gen Xers and Baby Boomers were just 30 and 26 percent, respectively., it's no wonder that the freelance and gig economies stood to benefit. “Working from home really accelerated this idea [of polyworking] because there wasn’t this set-in-stone expectation of being in an office,” says Sargent. “This gave many people more control over how they could use their time.
That was precisely the case for Julia Lemberskiy, who fell into polyworking after losing her executive role at Uber amidst layoffs in 2020."I reached out to my network for opportunities, and many exciting ones emerged," she says."Due to no longer being bound to a physical office, I was able to take on multiple opportunities at the same time." All that said, polyworking is not without its pitfalls.
That becomes a particular risk when you assume that you can multitask your way through polyworking, says research psychologist
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