Why do we believe that it’s OK to do 2x the work but not OK to have a separate job?

<p>A little context: Several weeks ago, I asked my Quick Hits panelists if it was fraudulent for someone to have two full-time, work-from-home jobs. </p> <p>The panel was split between employers who felt it was fraudulent and employees who said that they should be able to have a second job as long as they could do them both well. </p> <p>A commenter on my YouTube channel asked why it would be OK for a company to pay a productive employee the same rate as a less satisfactory employee, but not OK if that same employee gets a second job at another company. </p> <p>I immediately understood what this commentator was saying. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I worked at a bank. I got an hourly paycheck just like everyone else. </p> <p>My job was to process incoming wire transfers and answer the phone. I was always at the top of leader-board. But when bonuses came out, the company gave them to people at the bottom to help “motivate them.” </p> <p>What it did instead was discourage me and make ask why I even bothered to keep working so hard?</p> <p>I put that commenter’s challenging question to my panelists Atif Agha, Jim Tam, Philip Tate and Lauren Schieffer. </p> <p>Our conversation focused on the nature and value of work — in other words, a company that provides meaning and purpose won’t have to worry about employees seeing work elsewhere. </p> <p>What do you think? What do "we" think nothing of someone working really hard for the same pay be balk at the idea that they might do a satisfactory job?</p> <p>Connect with the panelists: Atif Agha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atifagha/  Jim Tam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimtam/  Philip Tate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philiptateaprfellowprsa/ Lauren Schieffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenannschieffer/ Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/</p> <p>Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it