....a new terminology for bonded slavery? Companies in India laid off hundreds of employees as they were parallely working for competitors, during the work from home period of COVID or post working hours
COVID was a perfect (or imperfect) time in history where Organisations realized that businesses could function normally, with employees working from home. On the contrary it is proven to be a boon for employees who have a work & home life at the same time and don't need to balance it at different time of the day.
Then with every evolution of mankind be it personal, social or professional there comes a paradigm shift, where humanity tries to improve their lives (many also mess their lives) and certain forces tries to supress, rule or enslave humanity. These forces are the governing bodies and business entities.
The governing entities will make the rules (many a times dont apply to them) tax the citizens and even decide their own salaries and perks. The business entities squeeze the hell out of employees with long hours, very little benefits and pay them peanuts and make shit load of profits and both these governing and business entities flaunt luxury lifestyles. Lifestyles made out of exploiting the ones they govern and the ones that work for them
Now if an employee moonlights and makes some extra money how is that unethical, illegal and bad? Recently companies in India have delayed on boarding in employees for nearly an year and that is fine. What lighting terminology can this be described? This is shutting off lights in a career of an individual. What about the mass layoffs and firing of employees. Can that be termed as Firelighting?
To the Premjis, Muthys and tycoon entities of the Industry a simple question? When you make a product for e.g. for the Banking Industry and if you sell it to a Bank. Don't you not sell the same product to another competing bank? What can we call it? Sunlighting, Making hay when the sunshine? Then the employees who made the product get just one salary, unlike you who sells it to multiple companies and makes money out of each client. What poor light of ethics is this? Similarly you want to expand make profits and diversify globally and make these employees slave in India who flood you with profits. What can we call this? Floodlighting?
At the same time if employees working for a fistfull of dollars more, post office hours or in their free time on a moonlight night, you want to eclipse it?
Well said, Sunny.
ReplyDeleteThese the so called business entities (with a few exceptions, may be) know how to squeeze the people and hardly pay them their worth, so they always remain in the lower middle class who have to cling on to their jobs for survival. If these people are still young and able pick a part time job for an additional income, it should be allowed, as long as he or she doesn't harm the employers interest.