The ‘Great Flattening’ rolls on as Uber lays off middle managers

Uber is reducing its workforce by 10%, or about 3,300 workers, in its largest job cuts since the pandemic, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced yesterday. The changes, which follow a period of solid growth at the ride-sharing giant, are intended to speed up decision-making by reducing the number of management layers, Khosrowshahi wrote in a memo to employees. The number of workers who sit seven or more layers from the CEO has fallen by 20%, and the number of “micro-teams” with only one or tw...