WHY PEOPLE MOONLIGHT

➘ EXTRA MONEY:

Techies say side gigs can fetch anywhere between $15 and $100 an hour depending on talent

➘ WORK FROM HOME:

Freelancing during off-work hours isn’t new. But pandemic-time remote working saw a rise in people taking up side hustles

➘ DEMAND:

The tech shift during the pandemic has created a huge demand for skills

➘ START-UP AMBITIONS:

Most tech start-up folk, invariably, have juggled personal projects with a regular job

HOW RAMPANT IS IT? ACCORDING TO A JULY REPORT

by Kotak Institutional Equities, of about 400 employees in the IT and IT-enabled services sector surveyed, 65 per cent said that they knew of people pursuing part-time opportunities /moonlighting while working from home