Many IT firms including Wipro and IBM have called it 'illegal' and 'unethical'. In fact, it was Wipro chairman Rishad Premji who triggered the whole debate by calling it "cheating - plain and simple".
Infosys employees can take up a second job outside office hours with their manager s permission and only for firms that are not a competitor to Infosys.
Recently, two top IT companies – Wipro and Infosys – took action against people who were moonlighting. TCS now adds up to the matter and says that moonlighting is an ethical issue.
On Friday, Minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that this is the age of employee-entrepreneurs and companies must understand now that there has been a structural shift in the minds and attitudes of the young Indian tech workforce.