This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by Kiran Suvarna
Moonlighting is the practice of performing a secondary job, typically secretly in addition to one’s primary job, without the knowledge of one’s employer.
Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji stated recently that the company discovered 300 of its employees were working for one of its competitors at the same time, adding that such incidents were dealt with by terminating their employment.
Many companies have a finance department that checks UAN numbers of employees on the EPFO employer dashboard to see if they are associated with other companies.
Even at Google, any code written by a developer during his or her employment will be owned by Google.
Why are people moonlighting?
- Firstly, Work From Home saves employees a lot of time. They no longer have to travel a great distance in hectic traffic to get to work. And all of the time you spend in the workplace sitting down and chatting with everyone and everything is gone after Work From Home.
- Layoffs are becoming more and more common across industries so now the employees started to think “Does it make sense to devote all of my time to just one company where one day my boss can come into the office and suddenly says, guess what? no more job.”
- And traditionally growing one’s income by being promoted may look less attractive.
Reasons why you should not consider moonlighting
- You may get fired. Companies will have dual employment policies and if the company is looking to downsize you are just giving them an excuse to get rid of you. No one wants to get fired, it sucks.
- If you work two jobs, you must accept as little responsibility as possible and neither of the companies will see you at your best, putting your career in danger. You may make big money in the near term, but it will kill you in the long run.
- Mental burnout
Conclusion
In India, unless banned by the employment contract, a person can perform many jobs without violating the law. It is a strict NO if the company contract forbids moonlighting.
The companies will have the leverage, that they can fire someone who does moonlight because they have 100s of other people lining up to the interview and the employee’s leverage is, “Okay fire me because I have two other companies I’m already working on” I think it’s a game and if you don’t play you’re gonna get played.
Moonlighting is an open secret, everybody knows everybody else does it but nobody talks about it.
But all the money you earn by moonlighting at what cost? You’ll burn out. If you are too busy to enjoy life, then that’s a problem.
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