What is Moonlighting in IT Industry? Can Moonlighting Be Allowed? 

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The issue of moonlighting by tech professionals has ignited a fresh debate, polarising opinions and raising thorny questions

Like; what are the reasons for Moonlighting? Is it a legal issue/ethical issue/HR issue/social issue?

Moonlighting refers to employees taking up side gigs to work on more than one job at a time.

It can be defined as working for one organization while taking extra jobs, usually without the employer’s knowledge.

Recently, India’s IT services provider company, Wipro has laid off 300 employees who were found working with its competitor companies at the same time

Rishad Premji, Chairman, Wipro said on 21 September that their employment has been terminated for an “act of integrity violation”.

Infosys has said that moonlighting is not permitted according to the employees’ code of conduct of the company and It described this with the taglines ‘No two-timing

Tech Mahindra CEO welcomed moonlighting and said that it is necessary to keep changing with the times and added, “I welcome disruption in the ways we work.”

In my opinion, an employee may explore moonlighting when they are bored with their current job.