A little more than two months after debuting its stock on the public market, Uber has made its first big workforce cut, laying off about 400 employees globally.
A little more than two months after debuting its stock on the public market, Uber has made its first big cut to its workforce, laying off about 400 employees globally. In an email sent to staffers Monday, Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said the company was reorganizing its marketing department across the globe.
The layoffs come just a few weeks after Khosrowshahi announced that Rebecca Messina, Uber’s global chief marketing officer, was ending her nine-month stint at the company and Uber was combining its public relations and marketing departments under Jill Hazelbaker, who was then senior vice president of communications and public policy.
The company’s marketing team had about 1,200 employees before the reduction. The total employee count is 25,000, according to Uber. “I have consistently heard that we have too many people with overlapping mandates,” Hazelbaker wrote in an email. “Decision-making is unclear, which means that we are not moving at speed or delivering the results the business needs. Separately, we have replicated core functions at the regional level, which leads to reinvention rather than iteration, as well as inconsistencies in our brand narrative.
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