What Does This Mean?
Holding several jobs or income streams at once, such as a full-time role plus part-time, freelance or side-business work, as a deliberate way to diversify income and build a career. Some sources contrast it with job stacking, which usually means two full-time jobs at once; polyworking is broader.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Between the day job, freelancing and a shop, he is fully polyworking.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wiktionary lists polyworking as the participle of the verb polywork. Workplace-advice articles describe the practice as growing; Mondo cites US data showing about 8.2 million Americans with multiple jobs, roughly 5.1 percent of workers, in July 2025. No dated coinage was found in the pages opened.
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