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Uber Cuts 10% of Corporate Workforce Amid Restructuring
Business Insider • • general
Key Points:
- Uber is cutting approximately 10% of its corporate staff, eliminating around 3,300 positions primarily in management and coordination roles to simplify its organizational structure and reduce complexity.
- CEO Dara Khosrowshahi emphasized that the layoffs aim to reduce management layers, broaden manager responsibilities, and consolidate fragmented teams, such as combining three Delivery Ops teams into single-threaded teams to improve efficiency and accountability.
- The company is also implementing a new location strategy, requiring most employees to work from the office at least three days a week, with less than 1% of corporate staff remaining fully remote.
- Despite strong financial performance, Uber is making these changes to create a leaner organization that enables faster decision-making, clearer ownership, and increased capacity for future investments in growth and innovation.
- This move follows earlier layoffs in customer service and HR, where AI adoption was cited as a factor, although AI was not mentioned in the latest announcement.
