'Moonlighting' officially

After-work-hour gigs is a new white-collar reality

Food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has broken new ground in human resource (HR) practices by introducing a “moonlighting policy” that allows its full-time employees to take up jobs after work hours subject to certain guidelines and restrictions. The chief of these is that the after-work-hours gig cannot have a conflict of interest with the employee’s full-time job. Nor can it impact productivity. The 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