Uber Orders 3,300 Layoffs, Ends Remote Work for 99% of Employees

Ride-hailing giant Uber is eliminating 3,300 corporate jobs, representing about 10% of its global workforce, as part of its largest organizational restructuring since the early days of the pandemic, Bloomberg is reporting.

The move targets middle management and coordination-heavy roles to streamline decision-making, while ending broad work-from-home options for nearly all remaining staff.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the cuts in an internal email to employees on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. He noted that while Uber’s top-line revenue has nearly tripled over the past five years, rapid expansion introduced operational friction that the company must resolve.

“Over the last 5+ years, Uber has grown by orders of magnitude,” Khosrowshahi wrote. “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.”

Uber eventually plans to reduce its overall number of managers by 20%, with some managers being transitioned into individual contributor positions. Furthermore, the company is cutting the number of staff members sitting seven or more reporting tiers below the CEO by 20%, while dissolving almost half of its “micro-teams” containing only one or two direct reports.

Beyond role eliminations, Uber is consolidating internal units that were previously split up. Its three distinct Delivery Operations teams spanning restaurants, retail, and white-label delivery, are being merged into single regional, local, and global units. Core Services Engineering and Science groups are also being merged to remove duplicate work.

Financial analysts from Citi estimate the layoffs will generate approximately $825 million in annual savings. Uber plans to reallocate those funds into driver and merchant partner incentives, core product engineering, and its rapidly accelerating autonomous vehicle initiatives.

With these cuts, Uber’s total global head count will drop from roughly 34,000 down to just under 30,000 corporate employees. Following the news on Wednesday morning, Uber’s stock rose about 2% in early trading.