A1 Level – Elementary
1. Do you have one job?
2. What is a long day?
3. Do you like a lot of work?
4. What is a second job?
5. Do you feel tired often?
6. What is a flexible time?
7. Do you want more money?
8. What is a busy schedule?
9. Do you think working two jobs is hard?
10. What is a good rest?
11. Do you save money easily?
12. What is a new skill?
13. Do you worry about bills?
14. What are three reasons to work multiple jobs?
15. Do you think poly working is good?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between having two part-time jobs and one full-time job?
2. Why are more people working multiple jobs now?
3. What are the good things and bad things about the gig economy?
4. How can a person manage their time when working every day?
5. Should governments provide better support for people with low wages?
6. Why is it important to tell your main employer about your second job?
7. Do you think poly working increases stress?
8. What is the purpose of having a side hustle?
9. How does poly working affect personal life and sleep?
10. What is the difference between flexible hours and fixed hours?
11. Do you think poly workers have a stronger financial cushion?
12. What are the problems when the jobs conflict with each other?
13. When is the best time to stop poly working and focus on one thing?
14. What are two things that make poly working necessary?
15. How does poly working affect a person’s feeling of job security?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for politely asking a boss for a more flexible schedule?
2. How does the cost of living affect the number of people who poly work?
3. Should the government provide health insurance benefits for all poly workers?
4. What is the difference between working multiple jobs for necessity and for ambition?
5. Do you believe that poly working is a sign of a strong work ethic?
6. What are the challenges of managing taxes and legal responsibilities with multiple incomes?
7. How does the focus on quick money affect long-term career planning?
8. What is the idea of “portfolio career”?
9. Is it fair or unfair when a person is overworked because they have two jobs?
10. How does a lack of time off affect a poly worker’s health?
11. What are the steps for properly organizing multiple work deadlines?
12. What is the value of developing diverse skills through poly working?
13. Should public media highlight the financial struggles that lead to poly working?
14. What are the reasons why some companies discourage poly working?
15. How does poly working affect a person’s relationship with their partner or family?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures to maintain a stable, traditional single job?
2. What are the moral problems when companies require employees to sign non-compete agreements for their free time?
3. How does constant work across multiple sectors affect a person’s sense of professional identity?
4. Should employers be legally required to respect the time boundaries of poly workers?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of constantly needing to switch roles and mentalities.
6. Who is responsible for providing financial security and retirement plans for poly workers?
7. What is your view on the practice of companies forbidding employees from having a second job?
8. Evaluate the role of labor unions in protecting the rights of workers in the gig economy.
9. How does poly working affect the concept of a weekend or holiday?
10. Discuss the concept of “burnout” in the context of working excessive hours.
11. What are the problems with having very different wage standards for different jobs done by the same person?
12. What are the legal differences between an employee and an independent contractor (gig worker)?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of poly working is mainly financial survival?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure that poly workers are paying appropriate taxes for all income streams?
15. How does the economic reality of poly working challenge the idea of the “American Dream” or similar concepts?
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the growth of poly working places a higher tax and administrative burden on the individual?
2. What is the right way to think about a government’s moral duty to ensure all jobs pay a living wage, reducing the need for poly working?
3. How do the platform’s algorithms influence the type of gig work that is visible and profitable?
4. When should the government consider mandatory social security contributions for all forms of gig work?
5. What are the moral questions when we talk about using personal time and energy to fill basic survival gaps?
6. How does the focus on quick gig work affect the long-term, necessary investment in transferable professional skills?
7. Discuss the impact of mass poly working on the quality of work produced in both primary and secondary jobs.
8. How should leaders use knowledge about poly working to reform labor laws?
9. What is the idea of “precarity” (insecurity) and its relationship to working multiple jobs?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when the traditional 40-hour work week disappears for the majority?
11. What are the difficulties when courts try to decide if a poly worker’s performance failure was caused by overwork?
12. How does the search for total financial independence conflict with the need for personal rest and leisure?
13. Do you agree that the most important thing is the poly worker’s freedom to choose their workload, regardless of the stress?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when they hire a gig worker for extremely low pay?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the amount of mandatory rest time between two jobs?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between a person’s desire for financial freedom and the economic necessity that forces poly working?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely eliminate the gig economy model to restore traditional labor protections?
3. How does the concept of “employment” change when a worker never has a single, full-time boss?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how technology platforms categorize their workers (employee vs. contractor)?
5. How do historical views of indentured servitude and piecework affect modern debates over the gig economy?
6. How can communities maintain social cohesion when people’s schedules are highly fragmented by multiple jobs?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to regulate poly working and let the individual fully negotiate their own terms.
8. What protection should laws give to poly workers who are denied benefits based on their employment status?
9. How can we stop the problem of using the argument of “flexibility” to mask the exploitation of poly workers?
10. What did old thinkers say about vocation, labor, and the moral use of time that is still important today?
11. What will happen to the need for human labor if AI can perfectly fill all gig economy roles?
12. How do people use the idea of “I’m always learning” to avoid discussing their financial insecurity?
13. How does the experience of balancing multiple jobs improve a person’s organizational resilience?
14. What is the power of a collective movement to force gig economy platforms to recognize workers as employees?
15. If scientists could create a perfect economic system where one job always provides a living wage, how would that fundamentally change labor culture?
