The Wipro company has taken such a big action on the allegation of moonlighting. Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji has called it a fraud with the company.

Wipro, one of India’s biggest IT companies, on Wednesday fired 300 of its employees. The Wipro company has taken such a big action on the allegation of moonlighting. Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji has called it a fraud with the company. Rishad Premji said that the company has no place for any employee who does moonlighting while on Wipro’s payroll. In such a situation, the question has started coming to the fore what is this moonlighting, due to which people’s jobs are being lost?

Wipro chief Rishad Premji has been a strong critic of Moonlighting since its inception. This time in a program of All India Management Association, he had spoken about it by tweeting. Let us understand what is moonlighting.

What is Moonlighting?

Talking about the definition of moonlighting, it is a different kind of job. When an employee works secretly in his fixed job as well as elsewhere, it is technically called moonlighting. In simple language, you can also call it a job. Most companies consider it immoral, and despite this people do moonlighting.

Moonlighting has become a topic of debate in the IT industry. Working from home became the common norm during the Covid-19 pandemic, which is believed to have led to double employment.

Infosys warns

IT giant Infosys had termed moonlighting as wrong and asked its employees to stay away from it. If they are found doing so, they may have to lose their job.

At the same time, CP Gurunani, CEO of Tech Mahindra, gave his reaction on this and said that he has no problem with any such arrangement. If an employee wants to earn some money by doing extra work after finishing his work, then he should be allowed to do so. It cannot be called cheating.