Uber lays off around 3,000 workers as part of major restructuring

Uber is eliminating approximately 10 percent of its workforce, or around 3,000 positions, as the ride-hailing giant seeks to streamline operations.

Uber simplifies its structure to become faster and leaner. The company reported a headcount of about 34,000 at the close of 2025 and has already informed most affected employees. In a memo to staff, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the changes are intended to make Uber "simpler and faster" by cutting management layers and creating room for fresh investments. He wrote, "A leaner organization will mean clearer ownership, faster decisions and more time spent building rather than coordinating."

Khosrowshahi pointed out that the company's revenue has nearly tripled over the past five years, which introduced greater internal complexity. Staff surveys reportedly showed excessive time spent on meetings and cross-team coordination. In response, Uber removed many coordination-focused positions, thinned out reporting layers and combined units "where fragmentation was creating duplication and slowing decisions." According to the CEO, the outcome "is a simpler org chart geared toward building versus managing."

Management layers shrink and divisions combine. The company is also concentrating its global teams in fewer hubs, primarily New York and San Francisco, while keeping select tech centers and regional offices. It is "asking the vast majority of remote employees to move to an office" and strictly enforcing a hybrid policy that mandates three days per week on site. Khosrowshahi stated that only around one percent of Uber employees will remain fully remote going forward.

The CEO acknowledged the scale of the upheaval but argued a single large adjustment was preferable to repeated smaller ones. He added that the benefits of in-person collaboration "are clearer than ever in our post-COVID world."

Savings will fund reinvestment including autonomous vehicles. Khosrowshahi explained the restructuring will produce cost savings that the company plans to redirect toward growth, innovation and priority capabilities. Last month Uber committed $10 billion to re-enter the autonomous vehicle sector, having sold its original self-driving unit in 2020. The CEO described the firm as enjoying "tremendous momentum, significant financial capacity and opportunities in front of us that are larger than at any point since I joined the company."