Are a growing number of your employees working a second job,right under the boss's nose?

That may well be the case, according to a recent survey of usersby the e-commerce platform Bigcommerce.com.

Bigcommerce.com surveyed 20,000 of its online U.S. stores todetermine when most store owners were working on their sites. Whatthey found raised suspicions that lots of store owners have fulltime jobs, and are pursuing their entrepreneurial itch on companytime.

The main discovery, Bigcommerce reports, is that a large andgrowing percentage of online store activity occurred at night —between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. Not much chance those folks are workingfor themselves while on someone else's clock.

But looking further, Bigcommerce said, it found that nearly 80%of online retailers were hard at it at noon. At 3 p.m., about 50%were working online.

“The data paints a new picture of the modern-day entrepreneur,”said Eddie Machaalani, co-founder and co-CEO of Bigcommerce.“Through daily conversations with our clients and monitoring thistrend over recent years, we understand that many of these smallbusiness owners are pulling long hours to run their business andwork a full- or part-time job on top of that, but these numbersprovide us with hard stats and evidence.”

Other data from the survey pinpointed what part of the countryhosts the most “moonlighters”:

• 33% — the largest group of moonlighters — are based in Southernstates (with Florida, Georgia and Texas having the highestconcentration in the region).
• 27% are based on the West Coast (led by Arizona, Colorado andCalifornia).
• 24% of U.S. moonlighters are located on the Northeast (led byNew Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.).
• 15% are located in the Midwest (led by Michigan, Illinois andOhio).

This article was originally posted at BenefitsPro.com, a sister siteof Credit Union Times.