{"id":67892,"date":"2025-10-09T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67892\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:46:07","slug":"nearly-a-fifth-of-employees-admit-to-polygamous-working-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67892\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a fifth of employees admit to \u2018polygamous working\u2019 \u2013 poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Nearly a fifth (19%) of employees say they have secretly juggled two competing jobs \u2013 known as polygamous working \u2013 and nearly a quarter (24%) believe it is \u201cjustifiable\u201d, according to a survey for a fraud prevention service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The research published by Cifas involved research among 2,000 employees across different sectors, including HR, engineering, finance and IT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Almost a fifth (19%) of people said they or someone they know had covered employment gaps with bogus references, according to the survey carried out by Opinion Matters in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Those who were surveyed were working in companies employing at least 1,000 people with UK operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Mike Haley, CEO of Cifas, said: \u201cOur Workplace Fraud Trends research doesn\u2019t solely reflect individual choices. It reveals systemic blind spots to a whole range of rising threats impacting the workplace \u2013 from polygamous working to UK professionals using fraudulent reference houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Keith Rosser, chairman of the Better Hiring Institute and director of Reed Screening, said: \u201cHiring fraud, driven by modern working styles and AI, is a quickly growing challenge for organisations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Cifas is encouraging employers to scrutinise people\u2019s qualifications and work history thoroughly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly a fifth (19%) of employees say they have secretly juggled two competing jobs \u2013 known as polygamous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[138,54566,4484,54567,232,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-67892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-cifas","tag-employees","tag-fraud-prevention","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}