3,300 corporate jobs under threat as Uber unveils restructuring

Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive, announced the plans in a message to employees.

He said the shake-up would reduce the size of its workforce by about 10 per cent, which equates to around 3,300 staff, as first reported by Bloomberg.

Uber, which has its global head office in San Francisco, did not specify how many roles would be impacted in each location that it has offices, including its UK office in London.

Staff affected have been notified, but some countries will have their own local process to follow, according to the firm.

Mr Khosrowshahi said in his message that Uber had been growing in the past five years and the business was performing well.

“But that growth has also brought complexity: more layers, more co-ordination, 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,” he said.

“The changes we’re making today are designed to do two things: make Uber simpler and faster, and create more capacity to invest in our future.”

Uber is also asking the majority of its staff that work remotely to come into an office, meaning less than around 1 per cent of employees will be remote.

It said it will reinforce a hybrid work policy which require three days a week in the office.

Mr Khosrowshahi laid out organisational changes that Uber is making including combining operational and tech teams, and reducing the number of “micro-teams” – where one or two employees report to a single manager – by nearly 50 per cent.

The number of employees who sit more than seven layers from the chief executive has also been cut by 20 per cent, according to the boss.