Uber has announced around 3,300 job cuts while ending widespread remote work for remaining employees. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said fully remote roles will be limited to about 1 percent of its global workforce. The company is asking most remote employees to relocate near offices, citing better problem-solving through in-person collaboration.
Uber's decision to cut around 3,300 jobs came bundled with a second, more disruptive announcement for the roughly 29,000 employees staying on. Remote work is no longer the norm at the company. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's memo caps fully remote roles at about 1 percent of the workforce globally, effectively ending an arrangement that had built up over five years of hiring people regardless of where they lived.
Almost every remote employee is being told to relocate
The 1 percent figure is not a soft target but a hard ceiling that applies worldwide, and it marks a sharp reversal from Uber's post-pandemic hiring approach. Khosrowshahi tied the shift to what he said the company has learned since COVID-19 - that teams solve problems more effectively when they work in person. The memo, accessed by International Business Times, asks the vast majority of Uber's remote staff to move to an office near their team, turning what began as a layoff notice into a relocation mandate for a large share of the employees Uber is keeping.
Where employees live will now depend on what team they're on
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