Better.com Rapidly Pulled Fired Staff's Access to Email, Messaging
Christian Chapman told CNN that, after the three-minute call, he started messaging colleagues asking what was happening when his screens went black.
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Christian Chapman told CNN that, after the three-minute call, he started messaging colleagues asking what was happening when his screens went black.
Vishal Garg, the CEO of digital mortgage company Better.com, recently fired more than 900 employees via a single Zoom meeting last week, which is about 15 percent of the company's workforce. Garg later accused "at least 250" staffers of working just two hours a day.
The Better.com CEO who fired 900 via Zoom said his company will be checking up to make sure employees are actually working. Remote work and a delayed return to
"I own the decision to do the layoffs, but in communicating it, I blundered the execution. In doing so, I embarrassed you," Vishal Garg wrote in a letter.
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg reportedly fired 900 employees over a Zoom call, which is bizarre as well as disappointing at the same time. The Indian American CEO has now reacted to the incident.