Uber Technologies stated on Wednesday it was slicing 200 jobs in its recruitment division amid plans to maintain the employees depend flat by the 12 months and streamline prices.
The reductions have an effect on lower than 1 % of Uber’s 32,700-strong international workforce and comply with the ride-share firm shedding 150 workers in its freight providers division earlier this 12 months.
The newest cuts account for 35 % of Uber’s recruiting staff, in line with the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the event earlier within the day.
Uber trimmed its employees depend by 17 % firstly of the pandemic in mid-2020 and has applied smaller cuts than chief rival Lyft in current months.
Lyft, below new CEO David Risher, laid off roughly 26 % of its complete workforce in April and about 700 workers late final 12 months, because it struggled to guard margins within the race to seize extra market share from greater rival Uber.
Uber stated in May it was on observe to publish working revenue profitability this 12 months and that it was holding its workforce flat after headcount fell sequentially within the March quarter.
© Thomson Reuters 2023
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