🌎 SF Bay Area, NYC, Chicago, Phoenix ∙ 👩 3,700 employees (14%) ∙ 🖥 Customer support, recruiting
Uber, the ridesharing service, laid off 3,700 employees (14%) last Wednesday. The layoff was concentrated in the company’s customer support and recruiting teams. Uber CEO’s letter to staff strongly hinted that more cuts are coming in the next week, including in engineering and product.
The Information reported that as many as 5,400 employees are expected to ultimately be laid off. However, one source tells Layoffs.fyi the total count could be as high as 6,700. In addition, 400-500 employees are reportedly being cut from Uber’s subsidiary Jump, which is being offloaded to Lime as part of Uber’s investment in the electric scooter company.
See link below 👇for a crowdsourced list of 250+ employees laid off from Uber.
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