Conflicts of interest: An employee involved with more than one organizations may be tempted to prioritize one over the other. It puts the company in a tough spot. Data breaches, productivity loss, and short attention spans are the major tribulations. 21% of employees have been reported to utilise company resources for external interests leading to increased operating expenses.
(Source: Economic Times)
Legal and compliance issues: Traditional contracts often prohibited employees from working for other organizations while employed with a particular company. However, this is the era of loopholes. Study shows that a large share of employees are somehow able to justify dual employment, performing it in the confinements of reasonable restrictions as long as there are no tangible confidentiality breaches involved.
Reputational damage: The most contingent wheel in the argument. Every company’s perspective on moonlighting remains divided. 33% of organisations have reported a loss of business, as clients and customers do not want to be associated with a company that allows its employees to engage in moonlighting.
(Source: Economic Times)
The need of the hour is to take the smart route. Companies need to reevaluate their existing policies to safeguard human capital as well as business interests. The primary step is to ensure moonlighting checks to locate dual employment while mitigating concerns such as data privacy, employee alienation, low productivity, and, most crucially, revenue loss.
While sectors like healthcare, pharmaceutical, FMCG, and manufacturing echo identical beliefs with 71% of employees on average citing dual employment as “unethical”, the IT sector boldly disagrees. 43% of employees in IT find moonlighting favourable and a response to “burnout and lack of support within the organisation”. (Source: Indeed)
As a human capital risk management company, we have witnessed a surge in the number of cases of double employment since the pandemic began. We have also seen the damage it can cause to organizations that never anticipate it and stay unprepared to deal with this risk. The need of the hour is to take the smart route. Companies need to reevaluate their existing policies to safeguard human capital as well as business interests. The primary step is to ensure moonlighting checks to locate dual employment while mitigating concerns such as data privacy, employee alienation, low productivity, and, most crucially, revenue loss.
Conflicts of interest: An employee involved with more than one organizations may be tempted to prioritize one over the other. It puts the company in a tough spot. Data breaches, productivity loss, and short attention spans are the major tribulations. 21% of employees have been reported to utilise company resources for external interests leading to increased operating expenses.
(Source: Economic Times)
Legal and compliance issues: Traditional contracts often prohibited employees from working for other organizations while employed with a particular company. However, this is the era of loopholes. Study shows that a large share of employees are somehow able to justify dual employment, performing it in the confinements of reasonable restrictions as long as there are no tangible confidentiality breaches involved.
Reputational damage: The most contingent wheel in the argument. Every company’s perspective on moonlighting remains divided. 33% of organisations have reported a loss of business, as clients and customers do not want to be associated with a company that allows its employees to engage in moonlighting.
(Source: Economic Times)
The need of the hour is to take the smart route. Companies need to reevaluate their existing policies to safeguard human capital as well as business interests. The primary step is to ensure moonlighting checks to locate dual employment while mitigating concerns such as data privacy, employee alienation, low productivity, and, most crucially, revenue loss.
Conflicts of interest: An employee involved with more than one organizations may be tempted to prioritize one over the other. It puts the company in a tough spot. Data breaches, productivity loss, and short attention spans are the major tribulations. 21% of employees have been reported to utilise company resources for external interests leading to increased operating expenses.
(Source: Economic Times)
Legal and compliance issues: Traditional contracts often prohibited employees from working for other organizations while employed with a particular company. However, this is the era of loopholes. Study shows that a large share of employees are somehow able to justify dual employment, performing it in the confinements of reasonable restrictions as long as there are no tangible confidentiality breaches involved.
Reputational damage: The most contingent wheel in the argument. Every company’s perspective on moonlighting remains divided. 33% of organisations have reported a loss of business, as clients and customers do not want to be associated with a company that allows its employees to engage in moonlighting.
(Source: Economic Times)
The need of the hour is to take the smart route. Companies need to reevaluate their existing policies to safeguard human capital as well as business interests. The primary step is to ensure moonlighting checks to locate dual employment while mitigating concerns such as data privacy, employee alienation, low productivity, and, most crucially, revenue loss.
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