500,000+ people on r/overemployed are sharing tips to work multiple jobs undetected
Detect and Prevent Unauthorized Overemployment
Your employees might be secretly working two full-time jobs. NARQ helps you find out — affordably, legally, and without becoming Big Brother.
9.3M
Americans working multiple jobs — highest ever recorded
BLS, Nov 2025
500K+
Members on r/overemployed sharing tips to avoid detection
$170K+
Cost of a single overemployed worker to your company
SHRM, DOL
The Problem
Overemployment Is Costing You More Than You Think
Over 9.3 million Americans hold more than one job — the highest ever recorded. A growing online movement with 500,000+ members on Reddit actively coaches workers on how to collect multiple salaries while doing the bare minimum at each. The cost to employers: lost productivity, IP exposure, fraud, and six-figure replacement costs when it finally unravels.
Lost Productivity
$25K–$50K
wasted per overemployed worker over ~6 months of part-time output at full-time pay before anyone notices.
Replacement Cost
$60K–$172K
total cost per incident including PIPs, severance, recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity during vacancy.
IP & Conflict Risk
Employees working for competitors expose trade secrets, client data, and proprietary information across organizations.
Culture Erosion
When coworkers discover someone gamed the system, trust erodes. Your best employees leave. Morale damage is hard to quantify — and harder to fix.
37% of workers polled admitted to holding multiple full-time jobs. 50.2% of multiple jobholders now hold a college degree — this is increasingly a white-collar, skilled-worker phenomenon.
Sources: Resume Builder (2023), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2024)
How It Works
How NARQ Detects and Prevents Overemployment
We're not bossware. We don't track keystrokes or take screenshots. NARQ is a targeted investigation and prevention platform for US employees — like hiring a specialist when you have probable cause, not installing surveillance cameras on every desk.
Connect Your Payroll
Integrate with your payroll system or import via CSV/Excel. NARQ pulls only what's needed: name, title, last 4 SSN, and date of birth. US employees only.
Supported payroll integrations or simple file upload
Subscribe & Activate
See your annual cost based on employee count — no more than $100 per employee per year. Pay, and your employees populate the NARQ dashboard automatically.
Dashboard shows connection status, employee count, subscription end date
Investigate With Cause
When you have reasonable suspicion, click "Investigate" on any employee. Document the reason, suspected policy violation, and supporting evidence. This creates a timestamped audit trail.
Who initiated, when, why — full compliance documentation
Get Results
Results delivered within minutes (24 hours max) via the dashboard and email. If the employee appears in another organization's database, they're flagged as potential overemployment.
Clear result or flagged match — documented either way
The Deterrent Effect
Catching someone is part of the value. But the bigger value is never hiring them in the first place. When companies tell prospective employees they use NARQ, bad actors self-select out. They take a different offer. That saves you months of underperformance, PIP costs, severance, and all the morale damage.
The best investigation is the one you never have to run.
Not Bossware
Investigation, Not Surveillance
NARQ is the equivalent of hiring a specialist when you have probable cause — not installing cameras in every room.
| Traditional Monitoring | NARQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Surveillance of all employees, all the time | Targeted investigation only when cause exists |
| Keystroke Logging | Yes | No |
| Screenshot Capture | Yes | No |
| Mouse/Activity Tracking | Yes | No |
| Scope | Every employee, continuously | Specific individuals with documented suspicion |
| Employee Perception | "Big Brother" | "Accountability" |
| Audit Trail | Varies | Built-in: who, when, why, what was found |
| Legal Risk Profile | Complex (wiretapping, consent laws) | Focused on policy violation detection |
| Cost | $6–15/user/month for everyone | ≤$100/employee/year |
Why NARQ Exists
Built by a Founder Who Lived It
"I caught an employee on my team secretly working another job. A few weeks later, we caught another one at the company. In the months after that, I brought this up with dozens of friends and founders. Almost all of them had firsthand experiences."
"One friend discovered her employee was working for two direct competitors AND a nonprofit. She only found out because another founder mentioned the employee by name at an industry dinner. That same day, another friend — an attorney — shared that a lawyer at her firm had been caught secretly working for a competing firm."
"Every single person said the same thing: it felt like a betrayal of trust. The employee who was 'sick all the time' or 'taking care of a family member' was actually working for someone else — while their coworkers picked up the slack and the company kept paying them."
"As a leader, you want to give people the benefit of the doubt and be empathetic. But when that trust is exploited, it erodes the culture for everyone."
"I built NARQ so employers could verify trust — affordably, legally, and without becoming Big Brother."
Max
Founder, NARQ
ROI
The Cost of One Overemployed Worker
At a $100K salary, a single overemployed worker costs $60,000–$172,000 or more. NARQ costs less than $100 per employee per year. You only need to prevent one bad hire to pay for years of coverage.
Without NARQ
With NARQ
Detection speed
6+ months
Minutes to 24 hours
Pre-hire deterrence
None
Bad actors self-select out
Documentation
Scrambling retroactively
Built-in audit trail
Cost
$60K–$172K per incident
≤$100/employee/year
Net savings per incident avoided
$55,000–$167,000+
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, SHRM, CareerBuilder, HumCap
Pricing
Affordable Overemployment Detection
Simple, transparent pricing that scales with your team. Connect your payroll system or upload a CSV and your cost is calculated automatically.
How many US employees do you have?
25
25–29 employee tier
vs. $60,000–$170,000+ cost of ONE overemployed worker
One prevented bad hire pays for 24–68 years of NARQ coverage
Full Pricing Schedule
| Employees | Annual Cost | |
|---|---|---|
| 1–4 | $100 | |
| 5–9 | $500 | |
| 10–14 | $1,000 | |
| 15–19 | $1,500 | |
| 20–24 | $2,000 | |
| 25–29 | $2,500 | |
| 30–34 | $3,000 | |
| 35–39 | $3,500 | |
| 40–44 | $4,000 | |
| 45–49 | $4,500 | |
| 500+ | Contact Sales | |
Never more than $100 per employee per year. Billed annually based on your US employee count at time of purchase.
Referral Program
Know a Company That Needs NARQ? Get Paid.
Tired of picking up the slack for a coworker who's barely present? If someone on your team is secretly working two jobs, you're doing their work for them. Refer your employer to NARQ — if they sign up, you earn 20–30% of their first annual payment.
Refer
Email max@narq.co introducing your employer or any company you think needs NARQ.
They Learn
The company gets a walkthrough of how NARQ works and how it can protect their team.
They Subscribe
The company starts a paid annual subscription based on their employee count.
You Get Paid
You receive 20–30% of their first annual payment, paid 6–8 weeks after their first payment.
For a 50-person company paying ~$5,000/year, that's $1,000–$1,500 for a single referral.
Email max@narq.co to get started.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Trust & Compliance
Built for Trust. Designed for Compliance.
Not Employee Monitoring
We don't track keystrokes, take screenshots, or record screen activity. NARQ is a targeted investigation tool used when employers have documented, reasonable suspicion of policy violations related to unauthorized outside employment.
Designed for Compliance
NARQ's investigation workflow requires employers to document the basis for each investigation — creating an audit trail that supports defensible employment decisions. We recommend all employers maintain written policies regarding outside employment.
Privacy by Design
NARQ collects only the minimum data necessary for verification: name, title, last 4 SSN, and date of birth. We operate as a service provider under applicable privacy laws and do not sell or share employee data.
Legal Considerations
Employers using investigation results to inform employment decisions may have disclosure obligations under the FCRA, CCPA, and applicable state laws. NARQ provides documentation and audit trails designed to support compliant processes.
NARQ investigations are designed for use when employers have reasonable suspicion of policy violations related to unauthorized outside employment. We recommend that all employers have written dual-employment policies in place. Consult with legal counsel regarding your specific obligations.