She is not alone — “polyworking” (having multiple jobs instead of a single full-time occupation) is a growing world phenomenon. “It is more common to find a person with more than one job than someone who is unemployed,” the report says. Polyworking, the report found, is not necessarily associated with the objective of shoring up income to avoid falling below the poverty line. “Technically I could live with only the union job, but I’d barely make ends meet, and I don’t want to. “It seems that the times where having a registered job used to be a kind of panacea are no more.”

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 03, 2023 16:56 UTC