What Is Moonlighting? Hereโs Why Wipro Fired 300 Employees For Doing It Wipro is not the only company that has raised concerns against 'moonlighting', a few days ago, even IBM warned against the latest trend
Yesterday read 300 Wipro employees sacked as they took advantage of work from home and worked parallely with another company.
Modiji's digital India has how nicely n precisely found the culprits is amazing. Kindly read the below article. Fantastic system in place in India ๐๐โค๏ธ๐๐๐น๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ
The humble looking PF Office helps to detect Moonlighting (serving more than one employer at a time) by IT workers
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MOONLIGHTING
When I first read about this term I was confused, what is this?
300 people got fired because of this?
I enquired and came to know that IT professionals in their Work From Home avtaar joined other companies who were also in Work From Home mode.
Same competency, double delivery. Two different laptops, same WiFi , catering to two different clients - all from the comfort of own home, in own hometown.
In both networks/ jobs performing exceedingly well - just to avoid suspicion.
It was impossible to catch them .
Then who caught them?
The most innocent looking, unassuming, always in the background - Provident Fund Contribution.
Govt mandated that PF contribution has to be deposited regularly and itโs violation was a serious offence.
Lo behold, as all aadhar, PAN numbers are taken by banks to open salary account, same are used to deposit PF, same are required by companies to do back ground check.
Systems are so beautifully integrated at the back end that it was next to impossible for these moonlighters to create two identities both financially and demographically.
So the PF runs a daily De-Duplication algorithm to check if someone has paid double accidentally.
They found out that there are accounts of individuals, where contributors are multiple.
This was reported to companies, and the entire Bhanumati ka kunaba came down crashing.
This is the power of Digital India working at grass roots level to weed out corruption.
GOI saw this potential years ago and has been incessantly prodding Govt organisations to go digital.
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