San Francisco-based Uber plans to cut about 3,300 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce, in the company’s largest round of cuts since the coronavirus pandemic. The restructuring was designed to reduce management levels, simplify the company’s organizational structure and free up money for growth, innovation and autonomous vehicles, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a message to employees Wednesday. Uber had approximately 34,000 employees worldwide at the end of 2025, according to the company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company did not disclose how many of the affected positions are in San Francisco or elsewhere in the Bay Area. “Everyone who has been affected has already been notified,” Khosrowshahi wrote. Uber’s headquarters are in Mission Bay. The company said it plans to concentrate global teams in its largest centers, including San Francisco and New York, while asking most remote employees to move to an office. About 1% of Uber employees will be able to work fully remotely, according to Khosrowshahi’s message. The company will continue to enforce its hybrid work policy, which requires employees to work in the office at least three days a week. Some teams will be combined. Uber plans to bring together its restaurant, retail and direct delivery operations under a unified structure, while merging its core service science and engineering teams. Khosrowshahi said the cuts were caused by the organizational complexity created during years of rapid growth. “Over the past five years, Uber has grown by orders of magnitude, and our revenue has nearly tripled,” he wrote. “But that growth has also brought complexity: more layers, more coordination, more fragmented ownership.” The layoffs come as Uber invests heavily in autonomous vehicles and faces increasing competition from robotaxi companies such as Waymo and Tesla. Waymo currently operates some autonomous rides through Uber’s platform in Austin and Atlanta, while also expanding its own service to additional markets. Uber has said it plans to invest more than $10 billion in autonomous vehicle partnerships and related initiatives in the coming years. The cuts also follow a series of more targeted reductions earlier this year. The new layoffs are the company’s largest since May 2020, when Uber cut about 6,700 jobs as the pandemic sharply reduced ride demand. Uber’s workforce reductions apply only to employees. The company’s drivers and couriers are generally classified as independent contractors and are not included in the employee count reported in its annual filing.
