The former CEO also questioned top management of companies and wrote, “Is senior management being part of other company boards moonlighting? When they invest their own money in startups and make profits, is that moonlighting? Is their trading in stock markets moonlighting?”
As per the BT Poll, the majority of voters are against the practice of moonlighting as they feel that Indian companies must ban this practice, but they also felt that this practice is not exactly 'cheating' with the current employers.
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.
Interestingly, Infosys, and Freshdesk - operate in similar domains when compared to the establishments in which their founders worked. Infosys and Patni Computer Systems operate in the IT sector while Freshdesk and Zoho both build technology tools for businesses. Moreover, both Amazon and Flipkart started as online bookstores.