Uber will cut about 3,300 positions, equivalent to roughly 10% of its global workforce, aiming to reduce management layers and increase investment in its core ride‑sharing, food delivery, and autonomous vehicle (robotaxi) operations. The restructuring was communicated in an internal memo from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that was posted online on Wednesday.
According to the memo, the layoffs are part of a broader reorganization intended to lower the number of managers by 20%. Some managers will transition to individual contributor roles.
Bloomberg was the first to report the layoff news.
Uber is trimming teams that currently have one or two members by half and is letting go of employees who are more than seven organizational layers below the CEO, according to Bloomberg. Khosrowshahi’s email indicated that the company is merging its engineering, science, and delivery divisions, as well as consolidating delivery operations across restaurant, retail, and direct‑to‑consumer segments.
The shift also affects remote work, with Uber now limiting remote positions to fewer than 1% of its workforce.
“We’ve built new products, expanded into new businesses, reached more consumers and supported more earners, and become a much larger and stronger company. But that growth has also brought complexity: more layers, more coordination, more fragmented ownership, and in some cases structures that made sense when businesses were smaller but no longer serve us well at our current scale,” Khosrowshahi reportedly wrote in the email.
Uber has not yet responded to a request for comment from TechCrunch.
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