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Moonlighting means doing a second job in another organisation by an employee in addition to the regular job. Usually an employee work normal job timing from 9-to-5 working hours as a primary source of income in addition to that when an employee take-up additional work for additional income without having an information to the primary job employer is considered as Moonlighting. Though the word Moonlighting is not a recent one, Moonlighting emerged as a popular practice in few sectors from the time of Covid-19, when the Companies permitted employees work from home, due to this the direct interaction of Employer to Employee was missed. This had given chances to the employees to take up the additional works as a side job. Mainly people prefer to work for side jobs for financial security, change of carrier, creativity, passion and ambitions generation of income from multiple sources. It also increases the aggregate demand and the national output.

Moonlighting, Secondary job, Employer, Employee, Income