A recent survey of small businesses found 21 per cent of start-ups launched in the last 12 months began this way.
This mirrors a growing trend for UK workers having second jobs to boost income. HMRC reports 1.2 million have official second jobs, up from 1.05 million in 2007.
Of these, according to call answering service, alldayPA, 450,000 are self-employed second jobbers running their own business on the side – an increase of 40 per cent from 2006.
Ambitious entrepreneurs use technologies like smart phones with multiple email accounts or cloud hosting to enable them to subtly send emails and carry out basic tasks while at their main job.
AlldayPA reports increasing demand for call answering services from double-jobbers, with new accounts up 32 per cent in the last year.
The study revealed the most common double job entrepreneurs are men between 25 and 34 years old.
The typical sectors where people launch businesses are Digital Services, such as website design, search engine marketing (18 per cent of double job start-ups), PR and Marketing (12 per cent), design (11 per cent) and HR (five per cent).
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