Many reluctant to fire workers indulging in side gigs: survey
By Jim Wilson
Oct 11, 2024
Workers’ side hustles could be coming at the expense of their employer, finds a survey.
Overall, 87 per cent of Canadians who are working but looking for a job say they have worked a side gig at one point in their career.
And nearly two in five (38 pe cent) say they would work on their side hustle on company time if they thought they could get away with it, finds Express Employment Professionals.
Over half of Canadian companies (51 per cent) have discovered employees working side hustles during company time, raising concerns about:
Most companies that discover an employee working a side hustle during company time take some kind of action (61 per cent), most commonly asking the employee to only work on their side gig outside of company time (32 per cent), giving them a verbal warning (30 per cent) or asking the employee to quit their side gig altogether (15 per cent), finds the Express survey.
Only a small percentage of companies take strict action such as firing the employee (11 per cent), reducing their salary (five per cent) or demotion (four per cent).
To try to prevent employees from working side hustles during company time, 29 per cent of hiring managers say their company has...
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