Uber's layoff memo also has a work from home message for remaining 29,000 employees
Uber is ending its remote work policy for the vast majority of its 29,000 employees, capping fully remote roles at 1%. The company is mandating that staff return to offices to improve collaboration, following a round of 3,300 job cuts.
Why it matters
This reflects a broader corporate trend of reversing pandemic-era remote work policies in favor of in-person office attendance.
Uber's memo to staff on Wednesday cut about 3,300 jobs, but the line that changes daily life for everyone still employed is the one about working from home. The company is ending remote work as a normal way to work at Uber. Fully remote roles will be capped at roughly 1% of the workforce, down from a share built up over five years of hiring people wherever they happened to live.Everyone else who works from home is being asked to move to an office. The three-day-a-week hybrid policy stays, and Uber says it will keep pushing for compliance with it.
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