{"id":1095182,"date":"2021-12-07T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095182"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:44:10","slug":"holiday-bonus-better-com-ceo-vishal-garg-fires-900-employees-over-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/holiday-bonus-better-com-ceo-vishal-garg-fires-900-employees-over-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Bonus: Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Fires 900+ Employees over Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fholiday-bonus-better-com-ceo-vishal-garg-fires-900-employees-over-zoom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095182&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Better.com-CEO-Vishal-Garg-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">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\u2019s workforce. Garg later accused \u201cat least 250\u201d staffers of working just two hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/better-com-ceo-accused-hundreds-layoff-staff-working-2-hours-2021-12?r=US&amp;IR=T\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that Vishal Garg, the founder and CEO of digital mortgage company Better.com, laid off more than 900 people over Zoom last week. Garg accused \u201cat least 250\u201d of the fired staffers of stealing from the company by working just two hours a day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.48\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch the Betterdotcom CEO firing 15% of his employees during a Zoom call! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3TEyd3SGVm\">pic.twitter.com\/3TEyd3SGVm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Financer (@TheFinancer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFinancer\/status\/1467848072596180993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to a post on a site called Blind&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/12\/03\/better-com-ceo-attacks-laid-off-employees-blind-message-board\/\">viewed<\/a> by Fortune, Garg wrote:&nbsp;\u201cYou guys know that at least 250 of the people terminated were working an average of 2 hours a day while clocking in 8 hours+ a day in the payroll system? They were stealing from you and stealing from our customers who pay the bills that pay our bills. Get educated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garg has confirmed that he was behind the Blind message, adding:&nbsp;\u201cI think they could have been phrased differently, but honestly the sentiment is there.\u201d Shortly after firing over 900 employees, Garg addressed the company in a live stream in which he laid out a vision of what he referred to as \u201cBetter2.0,\u201d with a \u201cleaner, meaner, hungrier workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garg stated that he wanted to grow Better Real Estate 10 to 100 times larger than it currently is. He warned that workers could expect stricter deadlines and more attentive management also.&nbsp;\u201cIf you felt in the past that people weren\u2019t looking \u2014 well, everyone is looking now,\u201d Garg said.<\/p>\n<p>Garg told Fortune in an interview that terminated employees who felt they \u201cactually had great performance,\u201d should reach out to the company as the majority of firings were done on a performance basis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/better-com-ceo-accused-hundreds-layoff-staff-working-2-hours-2021-12?r=US&amp;IR=T\">Business Insider here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}