The age of remote work helped women, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community feel more included in the workplace. But bosses were never completely comfortable with employees having more flexible hours and greater independence, especially since some workers started using their new-found freedom to work multiple jobs at once. 

Corporate leaders might be starting to gain an edge in the battle to have employees back in the office a few days a week, but that doesnt necessarily mean theyll be able to clamp down on their workers overemployment. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence could become the next ace up employees sleeve in their quest to fill up their days with as many side-hustles as possible.

The commercial advent of A.I. in the form of wildly popular applications like ChatGPT is already transforming offices, and could have major implications for productivity expectations. Generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT could make workers nearly 14% more productive, an April study by MIT and Stanford researchers found, while novice and low-skilled employees were able to work 35% faster than they would have without an A.I. assistant.

The technology, in which companies are already investing billions, could rival the Internet and modern infrastructure in terms of its impact on worker productivity, billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones told CNBC on Monday.

I do think the introduction of large language models [and] artificial intelligence, is going to create a productivity boom that weve only seen a few times in the last 75 years, he said. Lets say that this large language model is going to give us a productivity boom of 1.5% over the next five years per year, which I think is possible.

Employers are already thinking about how they can tap A.I. to improve their companies output. For example, James Clark, CEO of digital marketing firm Clearlink, declared in a video address last month that the company should put out 30 to 50 times our normal production after he realized that A.I. could accomplish in 30 minutes some content writing jobs that would normally take humans a full eight-hour workday. 

But absorbing all those productivity gains for themselves might not be an easy task for companies, as some workers are already applying their overemployment skills honed during the pandemic and taking advantage of A.I. to work multiple jobs at once, a fact that wasnt lost on Clark.

Some of our developers could be working for two different companies. We dont know. We hope thats not the case, but we dont know, he said during his address.

Clark may have good reason to worry, as anecdotal evidence is already emerging of workers tapping A.I. to earn more on the side. Users are using ChatGPT to write increasingly convincing cover letters to apply for multiple jobs, and last month, Vice reported it had spoken with multiple workers who were holding up to four jobs at once thanks to ChatGPT. One overemployed worker was able to increase their salary from $500,000 to $800,000 a year thanks to the technologyand working remotely. Fortune could not independently verify those reports. 

Workers refined the art of doing multiple jobs at once while working remotely during the pandemic, often earning two full-time salaries while still working a manageable 40 hours a week. The pandemic-era phenomenon of quiet quitting, when employees did the bare minimum of their job requirements, has been primarily attributed to widespread burnout, but it has also allowed some workers to get by with a mediocre performance at multiple jobs.  

But even if A.I. could be a boon to workers seeking to become overemployed, it might also widen the gap in trust between themselves and their employers, which has already been severely eroded by remote work. While workers have long insisted that they are just as productive working from home as they are in the office, if not more so, bosses like Elon Musk and even Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, are far from convinced.

Employers have become so uncertain about whether their workers are being productive at home that some have resorted to remote monitoring technology to keep tabs on their at-home employees. Some companies were already spying on employees before they went remote, like JPMorgan Chase, the countrys largest bank, which launched a data-collection and employee monitoring system shortly before the pandemic began that staffers referred to as Big Brother.

The trend caught on during the pandemic, with companies like Barclays Bank and UnitedHealth Group tracking everything from how long it took them to write an email to what they typed on their keyboards. But just as employees and bosses are seemingly reaching a compromise over remote work, a new technological development could be poised to stir up old paranoias.

To put in perspective how rapidly the mood has shifted, the record low before those two years was 50%, and that just happened in 2020.

Its not hard to parse why home-buying sentiment is so low. Interest rates have increased substantially over the past year-plus, curbing affordability, and the median home price sits at $436,800, compared to $329,000 pre-pandemic. For the past few months, housing affordability has been at its lowest point sinc

The survey not only takes into account the overall health of the housing market, according to Gallup, but also whether or not Americans believe housing is still a good investment. For most years going back to 1978, at least half of Americans have had confidence in that. But thats changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Record-low interest rates early in the pandemic helped to bifurcate financial outcomes for many Americans. Those who could afford to buyand were able to find a houselucked out as home values increased significantly; the Federal Reserve finds that homeowners have a median net worth 40 times that of renters.

Quickly rising home prices means owners were able to build equity more quickly over the past few years (mortgage holders saw their equity increase by $1 trillion from the end of 2021 to the end of 2022, according to an analysis from CoreLogic). But they also mean that current prospective buyers are being priced out of ownership completely.

The sad reality is that homeownership is the best path to generational wealth building for families, and this is now something that is in jeopardy throughout the majority of the U.S., says Maureen McDermut, a realtor with Sothebys International-Santa Barbara. Some relief needs to be brought to the market.

Higher interest rates are especially killer, quickly making an attractive price unaffordable. In fact, the monthly mortgage payment on a $300,000 loan would be $410 more at todays average rate of 6.58% than it would have been when the Fed started raising rates in March 2022, when the average was 4.40%, according to Bankrate.

As a result, younger buyers, in particular, are deferring their home ownership dreams. Almost a quarter of Gen Z and 18% of millennials says they will postpone buying or building a home due to economic uncertainty, compared to 12% of all Americans, according to Northwestern Mutuals 2023 Planning & Progress Study. Gallup notes that the pessimism permeating the market may keep first-time buyers on the sideline.

In the past five years, the price for what we used to consider starter homes has dramatically increased, and wages [and] earnings have not kept up pace, says McDermut. And with rents increasing and home prices increasing, potential home buyers are being squeezed from both ends. It is hard to save for a down payment when rent is taking up half of the monthly income of renters.

All of that said, real estate is still considered the best long-term investment, according to Gallup: Americans ranked in higher than stocks, bonds, gold, and other assets in the organizations Economy and Personal Finance poll. Its winning margin is narrowing, though. Around 34% say its the best, compared to a record-high 45% last year. That shows how much sentiment can change in a single year.

Higher interest rates over the past year have cooled the housing market, dampening consumer exuberance about real estate as an investment, Gallup noted in a separate release.

Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, was working for the Red Crescent in Riyadh in 2018 when plain-clothed security forces entered the office of the Red Crescent offices in Riyadh. He was taken away without any explanation.

How the Saudi government linked al-Sadhan to the Twitter account remains a mystery. In April 2021, the anti-terrorism court where he was tried handed down a prison sentence of 20 years for al-Sadhan, followed by a 20-year travel ban. Al-Sadhan has appealed the ruling.

In 2019, Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. citizen and former media partnership manager for Twitters Middle East region, was charged with acting as an agent of Saudi Arabia without registering with the U.S. government. The complaint also alleged that Saudi citizen Ali Alzabarah, who worked as an engineer at Twitter, accessed confidential Twitter data about users, their email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses, the latter of which be used to identify a users location. A third man named in FBI complaint is Saudi citizen Ahmed Al-Mutairi, who is said to have worked with an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family as an intermediary.

Abouammo was convicted last summer of failing to register as an agent for Saudi Arabia and other charges.

On Tuesday al-Sadhan and his sister Areej al-Sadhan, a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen living in California, sued Twitter Inc. and Saudi Arabia, alleging that they are members of a racketeering enterprise that seeks to extend the authoritarian control of Saudi Arabia beyond its borders and silence its critics. The suit, which seeks a trial by jury, also names as defendants Abouammo, Alzabarah and Al-Mutairi.

The lawsuit alleges that members of the Saudi Criminal Enterprise unlawfully surveilled, killed, tortured, disappeared, kidnapped, extorted and threatened perceived dissidents to silence their speech and to export its terror, repression and control to the United States.

The complaint also alleges that the defendant Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission, based in Fairfax, Virginia, is a tool the Saudi government uses to surveil, stalk, and harass dissidents and U.S-based Saudi students who criticize the kingdom. Alzabarah was a recipient of a SACM scholarship before he worked at Twitter, according to the plaintiffs.

It shouldnt require a federal lawsuit for a U.S. citizen to protect herself from Saudi Arabias thugs, but Areej has been left with no other options. We hope U.S. courts can provide them both with some measure of justice and protection that is sadly unavailable elsewhere, Andrea J. Prasow, executive director of the Freedom Initiative, said in a statement.

Prasow filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Freedom Initiative is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for prisoners wrongfully detained in the Middle East and North Africa.

The public relations office of Twitter was disbanded by Elon Musk after he acquired the company last year. A request for comment from the company was answered with an email containing a poop emoji.