Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, a cut that amounts to roughly 10% of its global headcount, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi moves to strip out management layers and reshape how the company is run.
Khosrowshahi said the changes were announced in an internal email sent on Wednesday and published online the same day. The move puts a number on a broader reset: Uber is cutting about one in 10 jobs while saying it will push harder into ride-sharing, delivery and robotaxi divisions.
The restructuring is built around fewer layers between workers and the top. Uber said it will shrink the number of managers by 20%, and some people now in management roles will move into individual contributor jobs. It also plans to cut the number of teams with one or two members by half, which should leave fewer tiny groups operating in isolation and more work folded into larger units.
Uber is also letting go staff who sit more than seven layers below the CEO, a sign that the company is not just trimming at the edges. Khosrowshahi said Uber's growth had brought more layers, more coordination, more fragmented ownership and structures that made sense when the business was smaller but no longer fit its current scale.
That is the part that gives the cuts their weight. Uber is not saying it is pulling back from growth. It is saying it is investing more in it, even as it reduces headcount. The company said engineering, science and delivery divisions will be combined, and delivery operations across restaurants, retail and direct will be brought together, concentrating work that had been split across separate lines.
The open question is how far the changes will reach beyond the obvious targets. Uber has said the layoffs affect management layers and remote staff in particular, but it has not identified which individual roles across the broader workforce are included. What is clear is that the company is trying to make a much larger organization behave like a tighter one, and it is doing it now, not after another round of growth makes the structure harder to manage again.
