Vishal Garg, head of online mortgage company Better.com, laid off 900 workers in a pre-holiday Zoom video call. The company has offices in Oakland, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Vishal Garg is taking time off effective immediately, the company said, a week after a video of him laying off hundreds of workers on a Zoom conference call went viral.

Vishal Garg, founder of digital mortgage lender Better.com, is staying on as CEO, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. The move comes less than two months after Garg came under fire for ...

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the Oakland-based mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they ...