If you’ve got a room full of people doing the same job, the work will get done if most of them are plugging away, even if you have a few people like the one in the article who sets up the computer and then goes to the gym
The story I read about some huy working a couple of different jobs involved him subcontracting out the work he was tasked with to Chinese coders. He paid them peanuts, then turned it in as his own work.
I almost mentioned that case. It’s still iffy: the code provided doesn’t belong to the employee but to the employer. If it’s up to snuff and the employer agreed to pay what they pay in salary for it, it’s still not clear to me that there is fraud of the employer. The interesting thing is whether the guy farming out work deducted the pay to the Chinese as an unreimbursed employment expense. LOL