Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs and Quits Nigeria

Uber is cutting about 3,300 corporate jobs — roughly 10% of its global workforce — in its biggest round of layoffs since the pandemic, and it is shutting down its operations in Nigeria effective Wednesday, September 2, after 12 years in the country.

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the restructuring in a memo to staff, saying the changes would make the company "simpler and faster" and "create more capacity to invest in our future."

The company is also ending most remote work: fewer than 1% of employees will keep remote roles, and nearly all staff are being asked to work from an office.

What Uber Is Actually Changing

The cuts are aimed at management layers, not frontline operations. Uber will reduce by 20% the number of employees sitting seven or more reporting layers below the CEO, and cut the number of teams with only one or two direct reports by nearly half.

Engineering, science and delivery divisions are being combined under the reorganization.

The layoffs hit internationally as well as in the United States. The Sun reported UK staff are among those affected. Uber is headquartered in San Francisco.

Separately, Bloomberg and Reuters reported Uber is exiting Nigeria effective September 2 following a review of its operations in the West African country — a market it entered 12 years ago.