CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them
Zillow’s CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says The Company is More Efficient Without ThemZillow just posted the best financial year in its two-decade history, then cut seven hundred people. It has not published a single number showing the company works better without them.Gal RatnerAug 05, 20261ShareOn Tuesday morning, August 4, 2026, just over five hundred people at Zillow Group learned they no longer had jobs. Their managers learned at the same moment they did.
- ▪Zillow’s CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says The Company is More Efficient Without ThemZillow just posted the best financial year in its two-decade history, then cut seven hundred people.
- ▪It has not published a single number showing the company works better without them.Gal RatnerAug 05, 20261ShareOn Tuesday morning, August 4, 2026, just over five hundred people at Zillow Group learned they no longer had jobs.
- ▪Their managers learned at the same moment they did.
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Zillow’s CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says The Company is More Efficient Without ThemZillow just posted the best financial year in its two-decade history, then cut seven hundred people. It has not published a single number showing the company works better without them.Gal RatnerAug 05, 20261ShareOn Tuesday morning, August 4, 2026, just over five hundred people at Zillow Group learned they no longer had jobs. Their managers learned at the same moment they did. Nobody was pulled aside the day before, nobody got a conversation, nobody got a warning. In a company that has spent five years celebrating itself as a distributed, remote-first workplace it calls Cloud HQ, that is what a layoff looks like now.
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