Wipro chairperson Rishad Premji said on Wednesday that the company had found 300 people to be moonlighting and working for competitors in the last few months, and iterated that there was no place for such people in Wipro. He later said that those employees were terminated by the company. The chief of the IT giant had earlier come under fire for comparing moonlighting to ‘cheating’, but said on the day that he would stand by his views on the matter.

Speaking at an AIMA event, Premji who has been a vocal critic of moonlighting, said that the tweet may have received a lot of flak but he meant it sincerely.

“If you actually look at the definition of Moonlighting, it is having a second job secretively…I’m all about transparency. As a part of transparency, individuals in organisations can have very candid conversations,” he said.

Premji said that action was taken against those who were moonlighting, and the said employees were terminated for “act of integrity violation". “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," Premji said terming it a “complete violation of integrity in its deepest form".

Moonlighting means working for a second job while committing oneself to one’s primary workplace. Premji explained that transparency was necessary and one could work at other jobs like playing at a band or doing a project over the...

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