Benefits of Allowing Side Jobs ~ Improved Hiring Power, Skill Enhancement, Turnover Prevention
I’ll introduce the benefits for companies hiring engineers when they ‘allow side jobs’, covering aspects like improved hiring power, skill enhancement, and turnover prevention.
Improved Engineer Hiring Power
If someone’s current job allows side work but the prospective new job doesn’t, they might not consider it as a transfer option. Therefore, allowing side jobs can potentially improve hiring power.
Engineer Skill Enhancement
Being able to gain experience with technologies and business operations at side jobs that aren’t handled in the main job is also a benefit of side work, I believe. By touching on companies, services, and technologies they’re interested in, synergistic effects can be expected for the main job as well.
Engineer Turnover Prevention
While there are patterns where side jobs lead to job changes, I think there are also cases where people put in a buffer and decide “actually, I don’t need to change jobs after all.” Rather than having someone think the grass is greener on the other side and impulsively change jobs, I judge this to be better, and personally feel it’s a benefit.
That’s all from an Engineering Manager in the field who wants to improve engineer hiring power by allowing side jobs.