Food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has introduced a “moonlighting policy” that allows its full-time employees to take up jobs after work hours subject to certain guidelines and restrictions.
Key highlights
- Swiggy claims this as an industry-first policy, in which the employees will be allowed to work on second jobs, under certain conditions.
- The chief of these is that the afterwork-hours gig cannot have a conflict of interest with the employee’s full-time job. Nor can it impact productivity.
- According to Swiggy, during the countrywide lockdown due to Covid-19, a significant portion of people in this country discovered new interests and talents and an additional activity may prove a new source of income for the families.
- The “moonlighting policy” idea reflects a practical recognition of the changing nature of white-collar jobs, especially in the fluid IT and e-commerce industries, where asymmetric work hours, such as for those working in global back-offices or engineers, leave employees with large stacks of free time on their hands.
- This is also true for those who work fixed hours or shifts.
- The combination of white-collar employees with time to spare or in need of extra income, and corporations increasingly creating space for gig workers has inevitably resulted in an expansion of moonlighting that is rarely acknowledged.
(Source: BS)
