Wipro Lays Off 300 Employees On Being Caught Moonlighting
The IT sector giant Wipro has fired its 300 employees over moonlighting issues, the authorities said these employees were working for other competitor firms secretly. The Chairman of Wipro called it a complete violation of integrity and took adamant action.
Rashid Premji speaking at AIMA's (All India Management Association) National Management Convention said "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,". The moonlighting matter is one of the major emerging problems faced by the companies who want to utilise the post covid time to compensate for the loss done by the Pandemic.
Apart from Wipro, recently Tech Mahindra CEO Anand Mahindra CP Gurnani tweeted recently that it is necessary to keep changing with the times and added "I welcome disruption in the ways we work".
Prem Ji further added "That is an open conversation that the organisation and the individual can make a concerted choice about, on whether that works for them or doesn't. 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."
Infosys too in their official mail said "Any violation of these clauses will lead to disciplinary action which could even lead to termination of employment,".
