Zillow Sends 300 Workers Packing
The online real estate and marketing giant Zillow reportedly laid off around 300 of its staff on October 26 according to a TechCrunch report. The layoffs came just around a year after the company issued a substantially larger layoff affecting around 2,000 employees, or around a quarter of its staff, in November 2021.
Sources speaking with TechCrunch said the October 2022 layoffs primarily impacted staff on the Zillow’s Offer advisors, PA sales and back-end staff at Zillow Home Loans and Zillow Closing Services. A Zillow spokesperson confirmed the layoffs in an email to Gizmodo.
“As part of our normal business process, we continuously evaluate and responsibly manage our resources as we create digital solutions to make it easier for people to move. This week, we’ve made the difficult—but necessary—decision to eliminate a small number of roles and will shift those resources to key growth areas around our housing super-app,” the spokesperson said. “We’re still hiring in key technology-related roles across the company.”
