CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them
Zillow Group laid off 500 employees, representing 7% of its workforce, despite reporting record-breaking financial performance and profitability. The layoffs were conducted remotely without prior warning, sparking criticism regarding corporate culture and efficiency.
On 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. A message arrives on a laptop somewhere, and then access to everything goes away.
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