India’s IT services, Wipro has laid off 300 employees who were found working with its competitor companies at the same time employment with Wipro.
Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji said on 21 September that their employment has been terminated for an “act of integrity violation”.
“The reality is that there are people today working for Wipro and working directly for one of our competitors."
And we have actually discovered 300 people in the last few months who are doing exactly that,” Rishad Premji said speaking at AIMA’s
If you actually look at the definition of Moonlighting, it is having a second job secretively…I’m all about transparency.
As a part of transparency, individuals in organizations can have very candid conversations
That’s an open conversation that the two adult individuals - the organization and the individual - can make a concerted choice.
Rishad Premji even added, “There is no space for someone to work for Wipro and competitor XYZ and they would feel exactly the same way if they were to discover the same situation."
“I will stand by what I said. But I do think it’s a violation of integrity if you’re moonlighting in that shape and form,” he added.
Earlier, Wipro chairman Rishad Premji also described moonlighting as “cheating plain and simple.”