After Corona,
employees working in tech companies have become very conflicted. The work from
home (WFH) method is introduced by all the IT companies and they are still
continuing even after two years. It seems that the nation is coming out from
coronavirus fangs and IT Companies have introduced a Hybrid policy inviting
employees to work from office locations twice a week. While doing WFH, some of
the employees used to earn additional income by working for other companies.
Lately, there has been a heated debate on the moonlighting system. The reason
is that the food delivery platform Swiggy has made this moonlighting approach
available to its employees working in India.
In this
moonlighting system, an employee working in an organization can also take up a
job or a part-time job elsewhere after working hours for additional income.
Even if they do, basically the company that hired them will not raise any
objection. Many employees in America choose this method of moonlighting for
extra income. However, the majority of the IT companies in India are wrong
about this policy. One by one, IT companies are raising their voice against the
moonlighting policy. It’s Wipro and Infosys, and now IBM also sent clear
signals to employees against the moonlighting policy.
The agreement that
employees sign when they are hired into their company clearly states that they
will work full-time for IBM. IT major Infosys has warned its employees against
moonlighting, stating that such actions will result in contract termination. IT
companies strongly believe the moonlighting policy is not morally acceptable.
Now almost every CMM Level5 companies started seriously on Employee
moonlighting. There is another version from the employees, whatever they did
beyond the working hours is not related to companies. What employees do outside
of contracted working hours is no employer's business. People should be able to
do second jobs to earn their lives.
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