How did Wipro catch staff doing moonlighting? A Twitter thread’s reply is viral

New Delhi: The recent episode of ‘moonlighting’ by employees of a reputed IT firm created a flutter among the working class and also sparked a debate over illegal practices in the professional sphere. IT major Wipro showed the door to its about 300 employees as they were found to be working for other IT companies simultaneously.

The company terminated their services calling them ‘cheaters’. Though, the company’s promoters are getting hate mails over ending their services and a debate is on whether the practice is wrong or justified, a Twitter user has come up with the theory on how the company caught them unaware.

Rajiv Mehta, who describes himself as stock market investor today shared a Twitter thread in which he explains how the company caught the moonlighters.

“It was impossible to catch them. Then who caught them?” he wrote.

300 #Wipro employees sacked as they took advantage of work from home and worked parallely with another company.

How #Digital #India has precisely found the culprits is amazing. Kindly read the below article. Fantastic system in place in India.

— Rajiv Mehta (@rajivmehta19) October 10, 2022

Then he answers the question and says that Provident Fund (PF) Contribution was apparently the reason why these moonlighters were identified.

PF is the retirement corpus scheme of the government which mandates the companies to cut a certain portion of employees’ salary and put it as a contribution.

He says that the moonlighters might have innovated ways to earn double income while being on Work from Home but the robust integration of PF system at the backend apparently bared their ‘infidelity’.

“So the PF runs a daily De-Duplication algorithm to check if someone has paid double accidentally,” he writes in the Twitter thread.

He further informs that the PF body found many accounts of individuals whose contributors were multiple and then informed the companies.

“It was then the entire ‘Bhanumati Ka Kunba’ came crashing down,” he says.

He also lavished praise on the power of Digital India and says that it has the potential to weed out corruption from the grass roots level.