Like Wipro, Infosys lets go of staff for moonlighting too

BENGALURU: Like Wipro, Infosys too has fired employees in recent months for moonlighting. “If we have found employees doing work in two different companies, where there are confidentiality issues, we have let them go in the last 12 months,” CEO Salil Parekh said on Thursday. He did not mention a figure.

Wipro chairman Rishad Premji had said a few weeks ago that the company fired 300 employees for moonlighting.

However, Infosys is planning to introduce a policy for allowing employees to take up external gigs, Parekh said. He added that Infosys has set up a platform called Accelerate where employees can look at internal gig work and projects outside.