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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Vishal Garg: Better.com CEO who fired 900 workers on Zoom returns to job after after ‘time off’

Screengrab/Vimeo/Better.com

Vishal Garg, who laid off 900 Better.com employees in a video call, will return as the US-based digital mortgage lending company’s chief executive.

Mr Garg had announced in December last year that he was “taking time off effectively immediately” after receiving massive backlash for terminating at least nine per cent of the company’s workforce via a Zoom call just weeks before the Christmas holiday.

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