Uber to lay off 14% of its staff

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The company says it's cutting about 3,700 full-time roles, or roughly 14% of its staff, on its customer support and recruiting teams in response to the reduced volume of ride requests during the coronavirus pandemic and the company's hiring freeze.

The company said in a filing Wednesday that it is cutting about 3,700 full-time roles, or roughly 14% of its staff, on its customer support and recruiting teams in response to the reduced volume of ride requests and the company's hiring freeze. Uber also said in the filing that CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will waive his base salary for the rest of 2020. "Days like this are brutal.

I am truly sorry that we are doing this, just as I know that we have to do this," Khosrowshahi wrote in an email about the layoffs to staffers, which was viewed by CNN Business.Last week, rival Lyft said it would be cutting 1,000 staffers and furloughing hundreds more as it also grapples with the impact of the ongoing pandemic on people using its ride-hailing services.Read MoreBoth companies have a history of steep losses and went through layoffs prior to the pandemic.

 

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Maybe they’ll get rid of all those support team people living in other countries who simply read from the script and never helped us drivers.

....And yet CNN seems to think it's a good idea to keep the economy wrapped up, Trump is bad, blah blah blah , while the DNC benefits from Biden being sequestered away where he can't make a fool of himself and being able to prey off of people's fear of this so-called pandemic.

Too bad it’s not CNN.

Would those be actual employees or faux “contractors”?

Uber drivers had issues finding directions....now it's the company

CNN do you understand how much pain your FakeNews hurts Families? Seems like that is your only goal

A new mass shooting just like New York? What the?

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Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforceInvestors will get a greater sense of the impact of the pandemic on Uber's business when it reports earnings on Thursday. After getting $810 MN contract from the US government. winning 14%? Oh i thought they had more drivers. Go figure. Huh Broader question-How do you Social Distance in car?(Lyft,Uber) Sanitize your place after each Guest stay?(AirBNB) OR Do these Biz just Die?!
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