United States: boss fires 900 employees in a single year-end Zoom

Teleconference layoffs are legal in the United States.

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The boss of an Indo-American company laid off no less than 900 employees on Zoom, the videoconferencing site, or nearly 10% of its workforce.

It was Wednesday, December 1, an announcement deemed brutal.

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Around 900 employees were invited by their boss to participate in a videoconference.

“ 

 ”, announced in a laconic tone Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, a broker in real estate loans.

The work meeting has turned into a nightmare.

" 

 ", launches an employee who filmed everything on Zoom and who can hardly believe what she has just been fired.

Vishal Garg cites the economic conditions and the difficulties of the company to explain his decision.

However, the New York-based company is valued at seven billion dollars and has just been bailed out by 750 million dollars by its historic investors, Softbank and Aurora Acquisition, according to

.

Asked about his brutality by

, the boss of Better.com affirms that 250 among the 900 dismissed employees, worked on average only two hours a day, instead of eight.

Vishal Garg is known for his violent practices.

Last year, he insulted his employees by emails dealing with " 

 ", for being " 

 ".

He even threatened a former associate to "staple him against a" 

 "and" 

 ",

magazine

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Shocking as the practice is, dismissing employees by videoconference is legal in the United States.

last year when a customer manager announced their dismissal to several thousand employees by videoconference.

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