Magento 2. Remove column from customer grid (admin)

So for me it was the confirmation(Confirmed email).

I've updated the confirmation attribute setting the following

'is_searchable_in_grid' => false,                
'is_used_in_grid' => false,
'is_visible_in_grid' => false,
'is_filterable_in_grid' => false 

Now this did not work on it's own and I'm not sure that it contributed to my solution, I'm stating it though cause it might be relevant.

What I did was extend the ui_component itself.

etc/module.xml

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
    <module name="Company_Module" setup_version="0.0.2">
        <sequence>
            <module name="Magento_Customer" />
        </sequence>
    </module>
</config>

view/adminhtml/ui_component/customer_listing.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<listing xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Ui:etc/ui_configuration.xsd">
    <columns name="customer_columns" class="Magento\Customer\Ui\Component\Listing\Columns">
        <column name="confirmation" class="Magento\Customer\Ui\Component\Listing\Column\Confirmation" sortOrder="130">
            <settings>
                <controlVisibility>false</controlVisibility>
                <dataType>select</dataType>
                <label translate="true">Confirmed email</label>
                <visible>false</visible>
            </settings>
        </column>
    </columns>
</listing>

Note the controlVisibility node. More information about it can be found here

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/ui_comp_guide/components/ui-column.html

Remove the company column in grid.

view/adminhtml/ui_component/customer_listing.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<listing xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Ui:etc/ui_configuration.xsd">
    <columns name="customer_columns" class="Magento\Customer\Ui\Component\Listing\Columns">
       <column name="billing_company">
             <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
                    <item name="componentDisabled" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
                </item>
            </argument>
        </column>
     </columns>
</listing>