# Background Work

Background Work: Background Jobs and Parallel Work.

Updated: November 10, 2026

1. [Background Jobs and Parallel Work](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/powershell-jobs) (Freelancer): Start-ThreadJob runs a script block in the background while you keep working, Get-Job shows its State, and Receive-Job hands over what it printed; ForEach-Object -Parallel does each item in its own runspace, -ThrottleLimit 4 at a time, which resizes 500 photos in a quarter of the time, with $using: to bring in a variable from outside.

Source: https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/powershell-in-depth/topics/powershell-background-work