Uber cuts 23% of HR division in leadership reshuffle

🔑 Enhanced Key Takeaways

• •The cuts to Uber's People and Places division, while significant for the department, represent less than 1% of Uber's total global workforce of 34,000 employees.
• •Uber explicitly stated that these HR restructuring layoffs are not driven by artificial intelligence advancements, although the company has acknowledged slowing overall hiring due to internal AI adoption and has implemented spending limits on employee use of AI tools.
• •The restructuring and layoffs occurred approximately three weeks after Jill Hazelbaker's promotion to the newly created role of President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, which expanded her responsibilities to include Uber's safety operations and the People and Places organization.
• •Jill Hazelbaker's rationale for the layoffs is to address the People and Places organization becoming "too complex and fragmented, with overlapping responsibilities, unclear ownership, and teams operating too far from the businesses and partners they support."
• •HR employees who had previously been approved for remote work are now being asked to return to the office to comply with a three-day-a-week office mandate that went into effect in June 2025.

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