Overview
- Uber, which announced the restructuring on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, will eliminate about 3,300 positions, roughly 10% of its global workforce.
- The company will reduce management layers by about 20%, shrink one- and two-person “micro-teams” by roughly half, and move some managers into individual contributor roles.
- Uber is combining duplicated units, folding its restaurant, retail and white‑label delivery teams into a single delivery structure and merging Core Services Engineering and Science.
- Remote work will be sharply limited with roughly 1% of employees eligible to remain remote and staff concentrated in hubs such as New York and San Francisco.
- Uber says the savings will be used to invest in drivers, couriers and merchants and to fund an over $10 billion push into autonomous vehicle partnerships while the cuts bring headcount back to about 30,000 and may speed decision-making.