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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't this illegal?[/quote]
Why would it be illegal? Most employers don't care about micro-managing employees' time. As long as you are productive and do the work that is expected from you, and do it well, they don't care about how many hours you actually work, how many coffee breaks you took. 
These employers are even introducing "unlimited time-off". The message is that as long as you do the job we expect you to do, you can take as many days off as you want.
Their concerns is your production. As long as you remain productive, they won't care that you have 2 or 3 jobs.[/quote]

You are either a fraud or extremely lucky.  I had never had a gig or a job where employer didn't care about trying to utilize every free hour I have and make sure I have no downtime.  Most people are expected to work more than one project and often help with other responsibilities. While so "many of you" posting here are saying how laid back your jobs are and how very little you get away with doing, I noticed the opposite.  Most companies want you to do more than one job for one salary or hourly rate.  Even if you are a contractor they will try to allocate you to things you don't normally do or squeeze in additional duties.

If your client/employer is using Agile then timelines move fast, and the moment you are done you are allocated to something else.  If you are splitting time between projects, the moment one is expected to ramp down pressure increases on another one.  You are constantly asked what you are working on, there are regular status meetings (at least weekly for slow moving projects and daily for fast moving ones).   Managers are trained to push people who do actual work to accept aggressive timelines, and if you try to ask for more time so that you can have some "padding" you can expect them telling you how long each task should take.  I had one manager tell me "this is only something that should take 15 min" and it ends up being a day-long thing.  I do not know another reality where your workload is so light that you can work several other jobs and where your client/employer/manager doesn't care how fast you work and how busy you are.   If anything, overtime is more common than sitting idle. [/quote]

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