Overview
- Uber announced on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, that it will eliminate roughly 3,300 corporate roles, about 10% of its workforce, and has begun notifying affected staff.
- The company will shrink manager ranks by about 20% and nearly halve tiny one‑ or two‑person “micro‑teams” to reduce layers and speed decision‑making.
- Uber will consolidate overlapping units—combining restaurant, retail and direct delivery operations and merging Core Services engineering and science teams—to cut duplicated coordination work.
- The firm will cap fully remote roles at roughly 1% of employees and require most remote staff to relocate near offices while keeping a three‑day in‑office hybrid requirement.
- Uber says the savings will be redeployed to driver and merchant incentives, core product engineering and an accelerated autonomous‑vehicle strategy that includes more than $10 billion in planned AV partnerships, a move that responds to growing robotaxi competition and could reshape its marketplace role.