Wipro has instructed employees to work from office 3 days a week through email as part of its exercise to curb moonlighting. This step of the company has been taken after 300 employees were caught doing moonlighting in the past.
Moonlighting means that the issue of working in two places simultaneously has become a hot topic in the country. Especially IT companies are against it and Wipro is the most discussed about it. As part of the preparation to curb moonlighting, the company has issued a new decree for its employees. It has been said that now he will have to come to office three days a week.
The rule will be applicable from October 10
According to a report published on Business Today, IT giant Wipro has told its employees that they will have to come to the office three days a week. It has been said in an internal email that this rule will be implemented from October 10. The employees who are in the leadership role will now have to come to the office for three days and work.
It was said in the mail that this rule will also give us an opportunity to connect personally while working in the office while maintaining hybrid work flexibility. Along with this, the company has made it clear that the office premises will open four days a week on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The office will not be opened on Wednesday.
Recently fired 300 employees
It is worth noting that Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji had first raised the issue of moonlighting and termed it a clear hoax in his tweet. Since then the debate on it intensified and after this one of the IT sector giants came in opposition to it. The Wipro Chairman may have opposed this policy of doing two jobs simultaneously, but not one or two, but 300 employees were found moonlighting in his company.
After this matter, taking immediate steps of the company, all the employees found doing moonlighting were immediately fired. Now this decree of back-to-office policy i.e. coming to office for three days can be considered as a step taken in this direction.
Other companies also engaged in this work
According to the report, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji had also mentioned during a special conversation in Davos earlier this year that a group of people want to come back and have a sense of personal connectedness while working from office. Is. Let us tell here that Wipro is not the only company which is encouraging its employees to work from back office. Tata Group’s TCS has also given some similar guidelines to its employees.
TCS also gave ultimatum
Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) has also asked its employees to come back to office and work. Such instructions have been issued by preparing the roster on behalf of the company. According to this, employees doing work from home will have to come to the office for at least three days a week and work.
Significantly, as the infection of Corona increased in the country, companies had given the facility of work from home to their employees. But in the meantime, many such cases have also come to the fore that they were found doing two jobs simultaneously. The case of Wipro is the latest example of this.
