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What Opendoor layoffs have meant for employees

In 2020 Opendoor's business was instant buying, and it aimed to hold each home for less than three months before reselling it, as TechCrunch described the company that April, when Eric Wu's statement on the cut pointed to fewer people buying, selling and moving during the pandemic. The November 2022 cut came in one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years, Wu wrote in his memo to employees, which also tied it to the need to adjust the business.

The 2022 and 2023 reductions were made to realign capacity with volume expectations and re-scale the business, among other aims, according to Opendoor's 2023 10-K. In April 2023 a spokesperson quoted by Real Estate News spoke of lining up operational costs with the near-term market Opendoor expected while keeping its critical technology investments, and the cut fell mostly on operations. If your job at Opendoor ended in 2022 or 2023 and a prospective employer asks about it, you can offer the company's explanation, a realignment of its capacity with the volume it expected, and there's more on talking about a layoff with employers.

The 2020 and 2022 packages both paid toward health insurance for months after people left, reimbursing coverage in the first case and paying for it in the second. The 2022 formula also added weeks for tenure. If you're given a package whose terms are open to discussion, you can point to that November 2022 formula as what Opendoor has paid before, and there's more on talking terms on a severance offer. If a package you're offered pays toward health insurance after you leave, there's more on replacing job-based health coverage.

Before that November 2022 round, Opendoor had already scaled back capacity by more than 830 positions, primarily by reducing third-party resourcing, Wu wrote, so most of those were positions filled through outside firms rather than the employees cut that day. On the day itself, the memo told the whole company an email would arrive within the hour saying whether each person's role had been affected, and those leaving would get a calendar invite to meet a leader about the change and their separation package. Job transition support and an opt-in talent directory to connect people with new opportunities were part of the same message. If you learned of a cut in a meeting like that, you can write down the package terms and dates you heard there.

Opendoor's leaders have explained the later cuts in terms of how the company runs. Chief executive Carrie Wheeler described a flatter structure when the November 2024 cut was announced, National Mortgage News reported, and in the June 2025 sales restructuring some people moved to new roles while others were let go, The Real Deal reported. In June 2026 chief executive Kaz Nejatian said Opendoor would come out of its changes a smaller company by headcount, with employees taking on broader responsibilities supported by technology and internal tools, Outlook Business reported.

With the 2026 India closure, work moved toward the US. Nejatian said the operational work done for Opendoor's customers was best done close to them in America, and in the company's view much of what the India team had handled could now be done by smaller customer-facing teams in the US, while a small number in India were to stay on for a time to hand over critical workstreams. If you worked for Opendoor in Arizona or California, where our WARN tracker shows its April 2020 notices, there's more on claiming benefits in Arizona and California.