New Delhi: Employees of US-headquartered mortgage company Better.com are leaving the company in “droves” after Vishal Garg returned as their CEO over a month after he laid off 900 employees in a single Zoom call, TechCrunch reported.
The company’s board announced Garg’s return in an e-mail to employees earlier this month.
Indian-origin Vishal Garg, who founded Better.com in 2016, had apologised for his manner of handling layoffs at the company after a video of him firing 900 people via a Zoom call went viral on social media in December 2021. Chief Financial Officer Kevin Ryan was managing the day-to-day decisions of the company and reporting to the board, Vice reported, citing the email.
The CEO, who was widely criticised for the ‘Zoomgate’, had cited the market performance and productivity as reasons behind the decision to lay off employees in the United States and India.
