Return to office | Are RTOs a bid to curb side hustles too?

If there was one thing Covid-19 helped accelerate, it was undoubtedly the ‘side-hustle’.

Already popular pre-pandemic (when one in five Britons had a second income by March 2020 –16% of which were earning more than £1,000 a month), by 2024, this figure has grown significantly.

Last year polling by Sage revealed that around 49% of workers now have a side hustle of some description, rising to 70% amongst younger workers.

Working from home = working on side hustles?

For many it was the mass normalisation of working from home that really fuelled the growth in side-hustles. Data from Aviva has found that 19% of UK adults specifically started a side hustle after the pandemic.