Reporting to employer you are a business owner or getting a night shift job?

[RFDttyfat]

If you are employed by a company working normal 9 hr shifts during the day, do you need to, either legally or ethically, disclose to your day time employer or human resources that you are either a business owner in your spare time or doing a night shift job to earn extra cash (say working in a gas station).

I can see if you have potential conflicts of interest you should disclose it, say you are working for an engineering company developing aerospace parts and your home business develops turbine blades then it may be a conflict of interest issue, but if youre an accountant in an accounting firm and your home business is developing turbine blades there probably isnt a problem unless it is unlikely that your home business hires your day-job company for work.

Does disclosing it put you at a disadvantage? Maybe the HR guys are sharks and will fire you citing whatever reason they see fit.

[spike1128]

If your business is not direct related to the company's field, it's alright not to report your activities.

There is only three things you have to remember not to do.
1) Use company resources to further you own business / using company time to do your own business
2) Using your company to create contacts for your own business, like acting as a contractor for the business and being employed by the company at the same time.
3) Also do not have the business affect your performance at work. Doing over night work for your own business at night, then sleeping on the job during the office hours is a big no no.

Other than that, if it's not during the company's time or it's not directly related to the field, then there is no need to report it.

[RFDttyfat]

Yeah thats debatable though in the eyes of HR. They can relate any kind of performance issue to your 2nd job or business and use it against you? Maybe if someone submitted a report with a spelling mistake, its just bad proofreading, but if you do it its because you are not concentrating at work.

So does that mean you should tell them?

What if you are already an entrepreneur before a job interview? Disclose also? During the Interview? (of course not.. red card alert?).