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CEO of Uber, the ride-hailing and delivery giant, overseeing its global operations, strategy, and workforce decisions.
Naver let its Naver Plus tie-up with Uber One expire after a year in which Uber's Korean monthly users climbed from 680,000 to 800,000 and slid back. The flat count points to Kakao T's grip on the market, though a split over Baemin gives the partners a second reason to part.
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Uber agreed to pay $2.3bn in cash for ezCater, a workplace catering marketplace with more than $2.5bn in gross bookings over the past year. That price is less than one year of bookings. It buys the large repeat orders that companies place to feed their staff.
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Korn Ferry's survey of more than 16,000 professionals found 61% covering more than one role and 45% too busy to deliver results that drive growth. Companies book the payroll saving from flattening at once, while the cost the survey points to arrives later, in growth work left undone.
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Uber is removing 3,300 roles, but the operating change is a depth limit that, at just under 30,000 employees, only works if the average manager carries more than four direct reports.
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Uber is removing about 3,300 roles and a fifth of its managers while promising $10 billion to the self-driving business it sold in 2020, and the staff who remain get roughly 300 remote seats between them.
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The reduction arrives alongside results that largely beat analyst expectations, so the stated reason is structure rather than distress, and the memo leaves behind rules about managers that other operators can count.
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Uber's chief executive says the savings from 3,300 job cuts will reach riders as lower prices, and three separate cost pools are being pointed at that same promise, none of them with a number attached.
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Obi, a California price and trip data aggregator, says Uber paid Nigerian drivers as much as 23% above what passengers were charged on rides under 12 miles, on a sample of more than 20,000 trips by over 300 drivers.
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The memo promises to remove layers at a company that already turns a billion dollars a quarter, and the arithmetic says the savings are earmarked for spending rather than margin, which is roughly why the stock moved less than 1%.
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The Zipline partnership repeats the robotaxi playbook: invest in every provider, build none of them. The stated target of a million deliveries a day by the end of 2029 is the testable part.
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Waymo is estimated at 15-16% of ride-hail spend in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. The labor cost lands in utilization and quiet exits, not in any number a dashboard tracks.
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