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<\/div>\nWipro has sacked staff who worked with other IT companies simultaneously. (Representational image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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How did Wipro, which sacked 300 of its employees recently for working with other IT companies at the same time, come to know of this work-from-home infidelity? The company hasn’t explained that \u2013 only termed these \u201cmoonlighters\u201d as \u201ccheaters\u201d\u2014 but a Twitter user’s theory is now viral.<\/p>\n
These IT professionals \u201cin their work from home avatar\u201d joined other companies that were also in WFH mode, tweeted stock market investor Rajiv Mehta, who has over 20,000 followers and mostly tweets about the share market.<\/p>\n
\u201cSame competency, double delivery,\u201d he wrote about the moonlighting, \u201cTwo different laptops, same WiFi, catering to two different clients \u2014 all from the comfort of own home, in own hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n300 #Wipro<\/a> employees sacked as they took advantage of work from home and worked parallely with another company.<\/p>\n
How #Digital<\/a>#India<\/a> has precisely found the culprits is amazing. Kindly read the below article. Fantastic system in place in India.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rajiv Mehta (@rajivmehta19) October 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cIt was impossible to catch them. Then who caught them?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
And then he answered his own question, claiming, \u201cThe most innocent looking, unassuming, always in the background \u2014 Provident Fund Contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n
PF is a retirement corpus scheme of the government under which companies deduct a part of it from the employee’s salary, and mandatorily put in a contribution too.<\/p>\n
\u201cPF contribution has to be deposited regularly (by the company) and its violation is a serious offence,\u201d noted Mr Mehta.<\/p>\n
That’s where the digital linking of documents comes in, he said.\u201cAs all Aadhaar, PAN numbers are taken by banks to open salary account, same are used to deposit PF\u2026 Systems are so beautifully integrated at the backend that it was next to impossible for these moonlighters to create two identities both financially and demographically,\u201d according to Mr Mehta.<\/p>\n
He claimed the dual employment was caught as PF authorities run a \u201cdaily de-duplication algorithm to check if someone has paid double accidentally\u201d. \u201cThey found out that there are accounts of individuals where contributors are multiple.”<\/p>\n
The PF authorities have not confirmed this.<\/p>\n
But Mr Mehta said the \u201centire Bhanumati ka kunaba<\/em> came down crashing\u201d after this duplication \u201cwas reported to companies\u201d.<\/p>\n
Though he has not shared how he got to this theory and if he has evidence, the tweet that started the thread got over 10,000 responses within an hour of being posted just after noon on October 10.<\/p>\n
Mr Mehta gave credit to the government’s Digital India initiative \u2014 and the interlinked infrastructure \u2014 for \u201cworking at grassroots level to weed out corruption\u201d.<\/p>\n