Uber will cut roughly 3,300 jobs, close to 10% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring announced by CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in an internal memo shared on September 2, 2026, as reported by TechCrunch. The move is designed to flatten the corporate structure and concentrate spending on autonomous driving.
The adjustment targets the management layers the company accumulated during years of expansion. According to Bloomberg, which first reported the story, Uber will cut 20% of its management layers, and part of that staff will shift to individual contributor roles. In the memo, Khosrowshahi explained that growth brought complexity: more layers, more coordination, more fragmented project ownership, and structures that no longer fit the company's current scale. The development matters for Mexico and Latin America, markets where Uber provides mobility services, because the decision signals the direction in which sector platforms are redirecting their spending toward automation and autonomous vehicles.
The company plans to cut in half its one- and two-person teams and eliminate positions more than seven levels removed from the CEO, while merging its engineering, science, and delivery units. It will also unify restaurant, commerce, and direct-brand delivery operations into global, regional, and local teams, and will restrict remote work to fewer than 1% of its workforce. In the memo, the executive wrote that the company grew in products, markets, and users, but that this scale multiplied internal coordination demands. Uber plans to invest more in its mobility, delivery, and robotaxi divisions, the autonomous-driving segment that is absorbing the company's new resources.
The decision leaves Uber with a flatter structure, less remote work, and a workforce that will settle near 30,000 employees. The next signal will come from the pace of that robotaxi investment, a direct indicator for urban mobility in Mexico and Latin America, where platforms of this kind also operate.
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