Chapter 2 How Does Corporate America Restrict Side Work, and Is It Fair?

DOI: 10.4324/9781032689623-3

Seeing just how expansive the definition of a side hustle is can also help illuminate why employers are concerned about competitive activity, moonlighting, and the various agreements signed when beginning new employment.

Many industries today leverage hiring based on traits like intrapreneurship, which drove the desire for hiring employees who at that time had or in the future would have a willingness to moonlight alongside their full-time employment.1 Hiring in this manner created a large employee base with a propensity for entrepreneurship without the company having stringent (or at least well-defined) policies to govern such activity.

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