Dive Brief:
- Uber has laid off about 10% of its global workforce, as part of an organizational restructuring meant to simplify the business, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Wednesday in an online message. This cut translates to more than 3,000 job losses, based on its global workforce count of 36,600 as of June 30, 2026.
- Wonder also laid off roughly 150 employees, or 7% of its workforce, which included roles within subsidiary Grubhub, according to Nation’s Restaurant News.
- The moves are meant to simplify Wonder and Uber Eats as the companies expand across channels and markets.
Dive Insight:
Uber’s CEO said its move will remove layers, simplify team structures, allow it to refine its global location strategy and focus people and investments on its biggest opportunities.
While Khosrowshahi said Uber has grown its order counts over the past five years, nearly tripled its top line and added new products and businesses, that growth resulted in significant complexity with “more layers, more coordination, more fragmented ownership, and in some cases structures that made sense when businesses were smaller but no longer serve us well at our current scale.”
Uber’s restructuring involved reducing roles that were focused on coordination and clarifying the coordination roles that remain. The company also reduced management layers and broadened manager scopes, particularly with small teams.
“In all, we’ve reduced the number of employees who sit 7+ layers from the CEO by 20% and the number of micro-teams by nearly 50%,” Khosrowshahi said. “The outcome is a simpler org chart geared toward building versus managing.”
Uber also simplified various teams like its Delivery Ops, which included restaurants, retail and direct, into one single-threaded team at global, regional and country levels, he said. While running these segments separately made sense previously, these businesses had come to possess significant overlaps.
Uber also established clearer principles for where roles and teams are located, with the goal of concentrating employees in a smaller number of key hubs. That shift included a move away from remote work, with only around 1% of employees now allowed to remain remote. Global teams will be located in New York City and San Francisco.
“We have tremendous momentum, significant financial capacity, and opportunities in front of us that are larger than at any point since I joined the company,” Khosrowshahi said. “The decisions we’re making today are difficult, but they will help us build an even stronger Uber for the years ahead.”
Wonder is also preparing for its next phase of growth, which will likely include going public within the next year or two, and the restructuring will allow it to streamline its operations.
“As Wonder enters its next chapter, we have made the difficult decision to eliminate a number of roles to focus our resources on key growth areas,” a Wonder spokesperson wrote in an email to Restaurant Dive. “We recognize the impact this will have on our colleagues and are committed to supporting them through this transition.”
Wonder secured an additional $650 million in funding during the summer, bumping up its total money raised to over $3 billion, and its valuation to over $9 billion. The company continues to open new Wonder food halls across the country and has 140 units as of July.
Wonder previously laid off 500 employees at Grubhub in 2025 following its buyout of the aggregator marketplace.
