Vacasa Lays Off 280 Employees as New CEO Sets Sights on Profits


Vacasa's Portland, Oregon headquarters.

Skift Take

It's tough for a new boss, like Vacasa CEO Rob Greyber, to come into a job and then have to make significant layoffs. It's tougher for impacted employees, however.

Just weeks into his new gig as CEO, and having already executed management changes, the Rob Greyber regime at Vacasa laid off 280 employees, about 3 percent of the property management company's workforce, Skift has learned.

Vacasa confirmed the layoffs tip from sources when reached by Skift and provided details.

The layoffs are mostly among its corporate teams, and less so among property-level workers, such as vacation rental cleaning staffs.

Impacted teams include finance, human resources, legal, marketing, central operations, product, engineering and sales departments.

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