Overview
- The cuts, announced Wednesday, September 2, 2026, eliminate about 3,300 corporate roles, reducing total headcount to just under 30,000 and marking Uber’s largest layoffs since 2020.
- Leadership will shrink by roughly 20 percent, the number of tiny "micro‑teams" will be cut by about half, and the share of employees more than seven layers below the CEO will fall by about 20 percent.
- Uber is consolidating units by folding restaurant, retail and direct delivery operations into single teams and combining Core Services engineering and science groups to remove duplicated work.
- The company will sharply limit fully remote roles to about 1 percent and require most staff to work from the office three days a week as it concentrates teams in hubs like New York and San Francisco.
- Uber says savings will be reinvested into drivers, couriers and core products while accelerating a multi‑billion‑dollar push into robotaxis; analysts estimate annual savings in the range of roughly $825 million to about $2 billion and the stock rose modestly after the announcement.