DIVIDED OPINION
What the stakeholders have to say about the practice
There is a lot of chatter about people moonlighting in the tech industry. This is cheating—plain and simple
RISHAD PREMJI,
Executive Chairman, Wipro (on Twitter)
In today’s world where employees want choices, I think we have to embrace two models—one is having employees full time on board and one is engaging with gig workers. So doing multiple jobs is not the problem but it’s how you do it. Are you being transparent about it?
DEBJANI GHOSH, President, Nasscom
I don’t think moonlighting is that rampant... If someone is meeting the efficiency and productivity norms and he wants to make some extra money as long as he is not committing fraud, he is not doing something which is against the values and the ethics of the company, I have no problem
C.P. GURNANI, CEO, Tech Mahindra
For companies to say that while you’re working for us, you should not think about a
startup or should not think of consulting for your friends, is a doomed-to-fail exercise... However, I do agree with one part of the moonlighting argument that if one is a contracted employee of a company, and your contract says non-compete, has confidentiality clauses, then if you violate that you’re obviously running afoul of the contract law
RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR, Minister of State for Electronics & IT; Skill Development & Entrepreneurship