Moonlighting will dilute focus on main job

If somebody wants to do moonlighting, it shouldn't be hidden moonlighting but should be known moonlighting. When it is linked with innovation, companies like Google allows moonlighting but the employee has to work on its projects. The current trend of working with two employers is not moonlighting. There must be some ethics associated with this issue.

Firstly, it shouldn't be direct conflict with your main employment. Because the employee is getting paid for that and he or she has signed contract that he/she will not work anywhere in any capacity. Secondly, the objective of moonlighting should not be to earn extra money.

If anybody wants to do other things, then he should opt for a contractual role. But if you want the safety of employment, want to enjoy the luxury of being an employee, then it is not ethical. Otherwise, one should take your employer into confidence. That will take out the conflict-of-interest concerns. If there is a commercial consideration in moonlighting, then it is not ethical when you are in a full-time employment with an enterprise or startup.

Otherwise, an employee will try to maximise its earnings from other activities.

This will dilute the focus on the primary job.

- Navin K Rungta, Co-founder of eLagaan