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Uber is cutting about 3,300 corporate jobs as part of its biggest workforce reduction since the Covid-19 pandemic. Reportedly, the ride-hailing company is sharply reducing remote-work options, with fewer than 1% of employees expected to remain fully remote.
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the restructuring in a message to employees on September 2. He said Uber’s rapid expansion over the past five years had created additional management layers, fragmented responsibilities and more coordination than the company now needs. The restructuring aims to make the business ‘simpler and faster’ while freeing resources for growth and innovation.
Khosrowshahi told staff, “Uber is moving toward a model in which employees are grouped around a small number of designated hubs: its two largest offices in New York and San Francisco will house global teams, with additional regional, country and tech hubs for other functions.”
Under the new approach, fully remote roles will be capped at approximately 1 % of the company's global headcount. This marks a major reversal from the flexible, work-from-anywhere culture Uber had built up over the five years since the pandemic began.
The restructuring also brings a major change for employees working from home. Uber plans to ask the vast majority of its remote employees to relocate closer to company offices.
Uber will continue to enforce its existing hybrid policy, which requires employees to work from an office at least three days a week. The company also plans to concentrate teams in key hubs, including San Francisco and New York.
These latest rounds of layoffs are the biggest to take place at Uber since the start of May 2020. This came as the firm laid off 6,700 employees amid the pandemic. This time Uber is positioning the layoffs as organisational restructuring meant to simplify operations.
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