Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs and Tightens Work From Home Policy

Uber is cutting around 3,300 corporate jobs, or about 10% of its workforce, as part of a major restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and simplifying the organisation.

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At the same time, the company is tightening its work-from-home policy, with less than about 1% of employees expected to remain fully remote.

Most Employees to Return to Office

Under the new workplace approach, Uber will continue its hybrid policy requiring employees to work from the office at least three days a week.

Most employees currently working remotely will be asked to work from an office closer to where their teams are based.

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Uber also plans to establish clearer principles around where roles and teams should be located. Global teams are expected to be concentrated in major hubs, including San Francisco and New York, while other offices will continue to support regional and local teams.

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The change marks a significant shift from the flexibility Uber adopted in recent years, when the company expanded hiring across locations and allowed more employees to work remotely.

Fewer Managers and Smaller Structures

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Uber’s growth over the past five years had also created more organisational layers, coordination and fragmented ownership.

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The restructuring is intended to make the company simpler and speed up decision-making. As part of the changes:

• Uber will reduce the number of management roles by about 20%.
• Teams with only one or two employees reporting to a manager, known as micro-teams, will be reduced by nearly half.
• The number of employees more than seven reporting layers below the CEO will be reduced by 20%.
• Some managers will move into individual contributor roles instead of continuing as people managers.

The job cuts are Uber’s largest since the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said the restructuring will create more capacity to invest in future growth areas, including autonomous vehicles.

The move also comes as Uber faces growing competition in the autonomous vehicle market. Reuters reported that the company plans to invest more than $10 billion in autonomous vehicle technology and expand its robotaxi business.

For HR leaders, Uber’s restructuring combines three major workplace trends: fewer management layers, larger team structures and a sharp reduction in fully remote work.

The move could add to the wider debate over how companies are redesigning roles and workplace policies after the rapid expansion of remote work during the pandemic.