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    US CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorDecember 7, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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    The boss of a US firm has been criticised after he fired around 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.

    “If you’re on this call you’re part of the unlucky group being laid off,” said Vishal Garg, chief executive of mortgage firm Better.com, on the call, later uploaded to social media.

    Comments on social media said it was “cold”, “harsh” and “a horrible move”, especially in the run up to Christmas.

    “Last time I did [this] I cried,” Mr Garg told the staff on the call.

    “I wish the news were different. I wish we were thriving,” he said. This time his tone was measured and he referred to notes on the desk in front of him.

    Mr Garg said staff performance and productivity, and market changes lay behind the mass-firing of what he said was 15% of Better.com’s workforce.

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    He didn’t mention the $750m (£565m) cash infusion Better.com received from investors last week.

    Better.com’s chief finance officer, Kevin Ryan, told the BBC: “Having to conduct layoffs is gut-wrenching, especially this time of year.”

    He added, however, that having “a fortress balance sheet and a reduced and focused workforce” was necessary to take on the “radically evolving homeownership market”.

    After the firing Fortune magazine confirmed that Mr Garg was the author of a previously written anonymous blog post in which he accused sacked staff at his firm of “stealing” from their colleagues and customers by being unproductive and only working two hours a day, while claiming for eight or more.

    The company, which aims to use technology to make the housebuying process “faster and more efficient”, is backed by Japanese conglomerate Softbank and is worth around $6bn (£4.53bn).

    Mr Garg’s management style has been criticised before, after an email that he sent to staff that was obtained by Forbes last year.

    In the email, Mr Garb wrote: “You are TOO DAMN SLOW. You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS… SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME.”

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