Uber is laying off roughly 3,300 employees, about 10% of global headcount, according to a CEO Dara Khosrowshahi email covered by TechCrunch. The restructuring targets management bulk: managers down about 20%, some moving back to individual-contributor roles; teams of one or two cut in half; and staff more than seven layers from the CEO exiting, per Bloomberg cited in the piece.
Engineering, science, and delivery orgs are being combined, delivery operations consolidated, and remote work nearly eliminated — under 1% of staff allowed to stay remote. Khosrowshahi’s note frames the cuts as removing coordination tax so capital can flow into rides, delivery, and robotaxis. For a company still fighting autonomous and margin wars, the headline is brutal and simple: fewer layers, same three growth bets.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-or-3300-people/