Uber is laying off 10% of staff

> We are also asking the vast majority of remote employees to move to an office, and going forward, only ~1% of employees will be remote.

If you believe in return-to-office as a soft layoff, even more than 10% will be leaving.

"In Pulse surveys and conversations with many of you, we’ve heard that too much work requires coordination across teams, debates take too long, and decision-making rights are unclear. I’m sure many of you have felt that you spend too much time “aligning” rather than building, shipping, or serving customers. To improve this, we have reduced roles primarily focused on coordination, and have clarified the remit of the coordination roles that remain. "

Well, in theory this sounds reasonable. But who knows what will be the real consequences.

Revenue is up massively, so we'll be getting rid of the people that helped that happen. Genius move.

Interesting -- it doesn't cite AI (smart comms move, and a change from recent practice) but the buried lede is that this frees up resources etc etc.

I think we might be in a new phase: AI layoffs are now being disguised as regular layoffs (rather than the other way around) because of the backlash.