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    • Better.com CEO, who fired 900 staff on Zoom call, says he's worked 'really hard' to be kind

      'I've worked really, really hard to... treat them with the same level of kindness that I showed our customers,' Better.com founder and CEO Visha Garg said.

    • Vishal Garg's Better.com starts job cuts again, lays off entire real estate team

      As per Better.com, the uncertain mortgage market conditions led to an extremely challenging operating environment for several firms in the industry.

    • Better.com CEO Vishal Garg, who fired 900 employees over Zoom call, sued for 'misleading investors'

      A Better.com lawyer said the claims were "without merit".

    • Vishal Garg's Better.com offers India employees option to leave, accepts 920 resignations

      Explaining their decision, Better.com stated that the uncertain mortgage market conditions created an exceedingly challenging operating environment for many in the industry.

    • After Better.com’s Vishal Garg, British CEO sacks 800 employees via video message

      P&O Ferries is one of the UK's leading ferry companies and carries over 10 million passengers a year. However, its demand slumped in the pandemic.

    • After Better.com, this company has fired hundreds of employees over video call

      Employees of British shipping company P&O Ferries were informed in a sudden call that Thursday would be the "final day of employment".

    • Computer abruptly shut down: Better.com employees recount mass layoffs

      Over 4,000 employees, including pregnant women and expectant parents, were sacked by Better.com this week in an ill-timed and widely criticised move on Women’s Day.

    • How Better got Worse: Employees in India recount their harrowing experience during the second mass-layoff

      The callousness in the way Better deals with employees has stunned and angered many. After laying off 900 employees over a shocking Zoom call by founder Vishal Garg just before Christmas, digital mortgage company Better.com decided to do the honors again, this time by sacking people starting on Women's Day.

    • Pregnant women among Better.com employees sacked in Vishal Garg's Women's Day mass layoffs

      Better.com is laying off over 4,000 employees, including pregnant women and expectant parents, in Vishal Garg's latest round of firing.

    • Better.com's Vishal Garg plans next layoffs, over 3,000 employees in India, US: report

      The latest round of layoffs have reportedly started, with an employee telling TechCrunch that affected workers have started receiving severance money through the company’s payroll app with no communication from Better.com executives.

    • Vishal Garg's Better.com was on hiring spree in India before Zoom layoffs: report

      For most of 2021, Indian-origin Vishal Garg’s Better.com was hiring actively in the United States and in India.

    • Better.com employees leaving in 'droves' after Vishal Garg returns as CEO: report

      Better.com CEO Vishal Garg laid off 900 employees in a single Zoom call in December 2021.

    • Vishal Garg, who laid off 900 in Zoom call shocker, returns as Better.com CEO: reports

      Vishal Garg had apologised for his manner of handling layoffs at Better.com after a video of him firing 900 people via a Zoom call went viral on social media

    • Anand Mahindra slams Better.com Vishal Garg over layoffs: 'What type of culture...'

      Anand Mahindra, who joined hundreds of others in slamming Better.com CEO Vishal Garg, had some strong words for the manner in which he carried out the layoffs.

    • Vishal Garg's Better.com No. 1 in LinkedIn's top 50 startups in US in 2020, 2021

      in 2020, Vishal Garg had made headlines for calling his employees "dumb dolphins".

    • Better.com CEO taking time off with immediate effect: Report

      Garg apologized earlier this week for his manner of handling layoffs at the mortgage company after a video of him firing 900 people via a Zoom call went viral on social media.

    • Anand Mahindra weighs in on Better.com CEO Vishal Garg's mass layoffs via Zoom

      Anand Mahindra retweeted several people replying to his question, with most of them slamming Better.com's Vishal Garg for his actions.

    • Better.com CEO Vishal Garg apologises after laying off 900 via Zoom, says, 'blundered the execution'

      Vishal Garg, who has come under intense criticism after SoftBank-backed Better.com laid off about 9% of its workforce through the video call, said he had "bl.

    • All about Vishal Garg, Better.com CEO who laid off 900 in Zoom shocker

      In 2020, Vishal Garg made headlines for sending an extremely rude email to his team, where he equated them to "dumb dolphins".

    • Better.com CEO Vishal Garg, in Zoom call shocker, lays off 900 employees in US, India. Watch

      Vishal Garg said 15 per cent of employees of the New York-headquartered Better.com have lost their jobs as part of the lay-offs.

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