Uber laid off 3,300 people this week, about 10% of its global workforce, and described the move as reducing management layers so it could invest more in ride-sharing, delivery and robotaxis. That is the language of a flatter, leaner organisation. Except the managers who kept their jobs did not get a lighter load. Uber is also consolidating many of its "micro-teams," and some of the middle managers left standing have simply been handed more direct reports each, the opposite of what "flatter" is supposed to mean for the people actually running the smaller teams.
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