Uber is cutting about 3,300 jobs, roughly 10% of its global workforce, in a restructuring meant to trim management layers and put more investment behind ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxi operations. The Uber layoffs were announced Wednesday in an internal email from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who told staff the company’s rapid growth had left it with too many layers of management and overlapping teams.
Bloomberg first reported the cuts. According to that report, Uber plans to shrink its number of managers by 20% and move some of them into individual contributor roles instead of eliminating their jobs outright. The company is also cutting teams of one or two people by half and letting go of staff positioned more than seven layers below Khosrowshahi in the org chart.
How the Uber layoffs reshape the org chart
Khosrowshahi’s email described a company that had outgrown its own structure. “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,” he wrote.
Part of the plan folds Uber’s engineering, science, and delivery teams together instead of running them as separate units. The company is also merging its delivery operations across restaurants, retail, and direct-to-consumer categories, which had previously operated with their own leadership and staff.
Remote work mostly disappears
The restructuring also curtails remote work at Uber. Fewer than 1% of staff will be permitted to work remotely going forward, a sharp cut from the flexibility the company had allowed in prior years. Employees whose roles are eliminated will need to compete for open positions or leave the company, according to Bloomberg’s reporting on the internal email.
Uber has expanded well beyond its original ridesharing business over the past several years, adding grocery and retail delivery, freight logistics, and a growing robotaxi partnership business that pairs the app with autonomous vehicle operators, including Waymo and Wayve. Khosrowshahi’s email framed the layoffs as a way to redirect spending toward those newer, faster-growing divisions rather than administrative layers built up during years of expansion.
The restructuring follows a period in which Uber added thousands of employees to support its expansion into new markets and product lines. That growth, according to Khosrowshahi’s email, created overlapping responsibilities and slowed decision-making, a problem he said the flatter structure is meant to fix.
Uber has not disclosed which specific teams or regions will see the deepest cuts, or how quickly the 3,300 departures will take effect. Khosrowshahi’s email did not include a completion date for the restructuring, describing it instead as an ongoing shift in how the company organizes its workforce.