Uber is laying off about 10% of staff, or about 3,300 people

Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, or roughly 10% of its global headcount, in a bid to cut management layers and invest more in its ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxi divisions. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an internal email published online Wednesday. Bloomberg first reported the layoffs.

According to the email, the layoffs are part of a restructuring that would shrink the number of managers by 20%, with some people in those roles moving to individual-contributor positions going forward. Per Bloomberg, Uber is also reducing the number of teams with one or two members by 50% and letting go of staff who are “more than seven layers down from the CEO.” Khosrowshahi’s email said the company is combining its engineering, science, and delivery divisions, and bringing together its delivery operations across restaurants, retail, and direct divisions. Remote jobs at the company are being eliminated too, with Uber allowing less than 1% of its staff to work remotely going forward.

“We’ve built new products, expanded into new businesses, reached more consumers and supported more earners, and become a much larger and stronger company,” Khosrowshahi reportedly wrote in the email. “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.”

Why it matters

Uber is trading headcount and remote flexibility for a flatter, more concentrated organization at the moment it’s pushing hardest into robotaxis — a bet that leaner management can move faster against rivals racing to scale autonomous fleets.