Uber fires 400 marketing department employees
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Uber currently has 75 offices worldwide. About 1, 200 employees work in the marketing department, which now will see how its workforce is reduced. Since the company has announced that 400 of these employees are going to be fired. Suddenly this marketing template is reduced by a third.
Uber fires 400 marketing department employees
It is not a surprise, because since its IPO, the company is looking for all possible means to reduce costs. Being the most common way in these cases to fire staff. The firm currently has 24, 000 employees.
Mass layoffs
This time it is Uber's marketing department that suffers these layoffs. Although it should not be ruled out that the company is going to lay off personnel in more departments and in more offices around the world. Most of the firm's employees are in the United States, and the company is now seeking to have a more centralized structure.
So there will be great changes in this department, to have less staff but to obtain better results with a structure that is more efficient for the company. It should not be ruled out that there are some offices that end up closing at some point.
Uber went public in May of this year. An important step for the firm, one of the most controversial these years. So they now have the mission of being profitable, something that does not always work. So we will see if these changes go as they wanted.
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