Uber cuts 3,300 jobs and slashes manager roles by 20% in company overhaul

Workforce reductions and managerial cuts

Uber Technologies announced on Wednesday that it is cutting approximately 3,300 jobs, representing roughly 10% of its global workforce. Chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi communicated the decision to employees in an internal email and a public company statement, detailing an organizational overhaul intended to flatten corporate hierarchy. The reduction is the company's largest since May 2020, when Uber eliminated 6,700 roles during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of 2025, the company employed approximately 34,000 workers worldwide, following earlier targeted cuts in human resources and customer support teams earlier in 2026. Uber's shares rose 2% following the announcement.

The changes we are making today are designed to achieve two goals: make Uber simpler and faster, and create more capacity to invest in our future.

Team consolidation and organizational flattening

The corporate restructuring directly targets middle management and fragmented working groups across the company. The overhaul reduces total management positions by 20%, with some managers reassigned to non-managerial roles while others are dismissed. In addition, roles located seven or more organizational levels below the chief executive officer are being cut by 20%. The company is also nearly halving the number of micro-teams consisting of only one or two people, which had multiplied coordination overhead during years of rapid expansion. Across technical operations, Uber is merging separate engineering, research, and science teams that previously supported core operations into unified divisions.

Capital reallocation toward autonomous vehicles

The cost reductions are designed to free up financial resources for long-term growth and technical initiatives, particularly autonomous mobility and delivery platforms. Uber is preparing to allocate capital toward autonomous transport as robotaxi developers expand services across major metropolitan markets. The company has committed over $10 billion (approximately €8.6 billion) to autonomous vehicle partnerships in the coming years to solidify its ride-hailing network. Operational logistics are also being consolidated by combining three distinct delivery branches, integrating separate teams for restaurants, retail commerce, and white-label business deliveries into a single operating unit.

We grew new products, expanded into new businesses, reached more consumers, supported more earners, and became a much larger, stronger company. But that growth also brought more complexity: more layers, more coordination, more fragmented ownership, and in some cases, structures that made sense when businesses were smaller and no longer serve us well at our current scale.

Return-to-office policy and international footprint

Alongside the job eliminations, Uber is sharply restricting remote work arrangements across its international operations. Under the revised policy, only about 1% of the workforce will be permitted to work fully from home, while the existing requirement of three mandatory office days per week remains in effect for other staff. Global teams will increasingly concentrate in primary office hubs located in San Francisco and New York. The workforce changes follow a hiring slowdown that began in May 2026, as the company prepares to integrate its planned acquisition of Delivery Hero. That €13 billion transaction is expected to extend Uber's operational platform across 99 international markets once completed.