Example Sentences

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I first heard about overemployment early in the coronavirus pandemic from a neighbor who knew of several software engineers holding two full-time jobs at once.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

More recently, Wired magazine reporter Fadeke Adegbuyi explored overemployment.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

Opponents of remote work will probably seize on overemployment as evidence that unsupervised workers can’t be trusted.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

This situation encourages overemployment �one of Britain's main labor problems �makes it more difficult and expensive for firms to export, and tends to make all workers progress at the speed of the slowest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Likewise, because a man is in military uniform does not require that his speech be terse, cold, given to the biting of words and the overemployment of professional jargon.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense