Uber Technologies plans to cut about 3,300 jobs, or roughly 10% of its global workforce, as it simplifies its organizational structure and reduces management layers. The company will also sharply limit fully remote positions, with such roles expected to represent about 1% of its workforce.
Uber Technologies plans to eliminate about 3,300 jobs as part of a broad restructuring aimed at simplifying the company’s organization and reducing management layers.
The cuts represent roughly 10% of Uber’s workforce of about 34,000 employees and are among the company’s largest workforce reductions since the COVID-19 pandemic. Uber said the changes are intended to remove organizational complexity, accelerate decision making and allow the company to focus its people and investments on key opportunities.
The restructuring will reduce by 20% the number of employees who sit seven or more reporting layers below Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi. Uber will also nearly halve the number of small teams with only one or two employees, according to Khosrowshahi’s message to staff.
The company said some managers will move into individual-contributor positions rather than leaving the company, while the job reductions will also affect non-managerial employees. Uber did not disclose what proportion of the managers being reduced would be laid off.
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Uber is also changing its approach to remote work. Fully remote positions will be limited to about 1% of the workforce as the company adjusts its global location strategy and places greater emphasis on its office hubs.
Khosrowshahi said the restructuring reflects the complexity that developed as Uber expanded into new products and businesses. The company expects the changes to generate savings that can be reinvested in growth, innovation and other strategic priorities.
The announcement comes as Uber continues to invest in areas including autonomous vehicles while facing increasing competition in ride-hailing and delivery. Khosrowshahi did not attribute the layoffs to artificial intelligence, despite broader concerns about AI-driven job reductions across the technology industry.
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