Moonlighting ethically Valid or not??

 Moonlighting ethically Valid or not??

IT major Wipro recently fired 300 employees for moonlighting, the term used for working with other companies at the same time.

What is moonlighting?

Moonlighting refers to working additional shifts or jobs outside one's regular job, usually without the primary employer's knowledge. Companies have opposed the practice, claiming that having staff perform multiple jobs impacts their productivity.

Working from home became the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing employees to take up additional work assignments.

Same competency, double delivery. Two different laptops, same WiFi, catering to two different clients — all from the comfort of own home, in own hometown. It was impossible to catch them. Then who caught them? revealing the secret method companies apply to catch moonlighters.

The most innocent looking, unassuming —provident fund contribution was the reason the employees were identified.

A provident fund (PF) is a government retirement corpus under which companies have to deduct a part of an employee's salary, and make an equal contribution to the employee's PF account. It is mandatory and its violation is a serious offense.

Aadhaar, PAN numbers are taken by banks to open salary accounts and the same are used to deposit PF. Systems are so beautifully integrated at the back end that it was next to impossible for these moonlighters to create two identities, both financially and demographically.

daily de-duplication algorithm to check if someone has paid twice mistakenly. This was where dual employment was discovered. They discovered that there existed accounts of people with many donors.

Technology and software companies in India are divided on whether to allow their employees to moonlight for other companies while still on their payrolls or not.

While some, like Tech Mahindra, have supported the idea of side hustles, others, like IBM and Wipro, have flagged concerns about it.

The country's largest IT services exporter, TCS, said moonlighting is an "ethical issue" and against its core values but has not taken any action against any staff.

What’s your opinion on Moonlighting??