Moonlighting: Wipro fires 300 workers for ‘working for competitors’

After disapproving the apply of moonlighting, Wipro has turn into the primary Indian IT main in current instances to have fired 300 workers who have been discovered to be working for opponents on the similar time.

“Employees can have a transparent dialogue with the organisation about their second or weekend work, but we discovered 300 employees who were working for direct competitors. There is no place for them,” Wipro chairman Rishad Premji mentioned Wednesday at a convention organised by the All India Management Association . “It is an act of integrity violation in its deepest form,” he added.

Premji has been a vocal critic of moonlighting and had earlier made it clear that the corporate had no place for such workers. On Wednesday, he mentioned that although he has acquired an enormous quantity of hate mail since calling it (moonlighting) dishonest, he stands by what he mentioned. Moonlighting refers to pursuing multiple job at a time and distant working (earn a living from home), which grew to become a norm throughout Covid days and remains to be prevalent at a number of workplaces.

It grew to become a giant speaking level when lately, Premji equated the apply to dishonest in a tweet. “There is a lot of chatter about people moonlighting in the tech industry. This is cheating — plain and simple,” he had mentioned. Later, different IT corporations additionally commented on the difficulty with most supporting Premji’s views.

The solely exception was Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani, who in a tweet, said that moonlighting is critical to maintain altering with the instances.  FE