{"id":1029203,"date":"2026-08-17T08:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029203"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:56:48","slug":"full-circle-better-sacks-vishal-garg-as-2021-mass-layoff-controversy-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/full-circle-better-sacks-vishal-garg-as-2021-mass-layoff-controversy-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Full circle: Better sacks Vishal Garg as 2021 mass layoff controversy resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vishal Garg, the Indian-origin entrepreneur whose abrupt firing of about 900 employees on a four-minute Zoom call in 2021 triggered widespread criticism, has been removed as chief executive of digital mortgage lender Better Home &amp; Finance. <\/p>\n<p>Better\u2019s board said Garg has relinquished his CEO position and also stepped down from the company\u2019s board. His departure brings to a close a difficult period for the lender, which faced a sharp reputational hit, senior management exits and a steep decline in its stock value following the mass layoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vishal Garg, the Indian-origin entrepreneur whose abrupt firing of about 900 employees on a four-minute Zoom call in 2021 triggered widespread criticism, has been removed as chief executive of digital mortgage lender Better Home &amp; Finance. Better\u2019s board said Garg has relinquished his CEO position and also stepped down from the company\u2019s board. His departure brings to a close a difficult period for the lender, which faced a sharp reputational hit, senior management exits and a steep decline in its stock value following the mass layoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029225,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029203\/revisions\/1029225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}