Uber Employees

Bolt, the Estonian rival to ride-hailing app Uber, is calling its employees back to the office three days a week after its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) decried his "disconnected" staff's habit of working from idyllic destinations like Bali.

A recent post by a former Uber employee sheds light on how they tackled a classic startup obstacle: the chicken and egg problem.

Many users called it another 'Peak Bengaluru' moment, a term that is associated with the attention-grabbing incidents happening in the IT hub of India.

Uber Technologies said on Wednesday it would cut 200 jobs in the company's recruitment division amid plans to keep the staff count flat through the year and streamline costs. The reductions affect less than 1 percent of Uber's global workforce. The ride-share company laid off 150 employees in its freight services division earlier this year.

CEO David Risher told employees in a meeting that they would be required to come back into the office at least three days a week.

Uber has accused one of its former employees of embezzling over Rs 1 crore by sneaking in fake driver profiles in the company's list of drivers, police said on Tuesday.

Uber on Monday said it was probing the data breach of a third-party vendor after it was reported that the data of 77,000 employees was leaked along with source code for the Uber and Uber Eats mobile device management platforms. The company's vendor, Teqtivity, said it doesn’t collect or store sensitive information such as bank account details or ...

Uber's former chief of security, Joseph Sullivan, was found guilty by a US jury of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge of a breach from authorities. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver's license numbers, according t...

Uber has reportedly said that a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was behind the cyberattack that caused the company to close down several of its internal communications and engineering systems temporarily last week. The hacker reportedly compromised the account of an employee's workplace messaging app Slack and used it to send a mes...

Uber has announced a fresh round of recruitment for its India tech centres and plans to hire 500 additional tech employees by December 2022. The hiring will happen across its centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

Uber logged a net loss of $5.9 billion, the company said in its earnings report. The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States.

Yelp, the online review service, has announced that it'll cover travel expenses of employees who must travel out-of-state for abortions. This comes after Texas and other states in the US passed a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Dara Khosrowshahi said that Uber would make it mandatory for its white collar employees will need to be vaccinated

Uber will let employees work half their hours from wherever they want as part of its revamped return-to-office strategy, the transport app company plans to announce on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Uber said it expects its employees to return to office by September 13, making it one of the first major US tech companies to set a return date.

Bolt, the Estonian rival to ride-hailing app Uber, is calling its employees back to the office three days a week after its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) decried his "disconnected" staff's habit of working from idyllic destinations like Bali.

A recent post by a former Uber employee sheds light on how they tackled a classic startup obstacle: the chicken and egg problem.

Many users called it another 'Peak Bengaluru' moment, a term that is associated with the attention-grabbing incidents happening in the IT hub of India.

Uber Technologies said on Wednesday it would cut 200 jobs in the company's recruitment division amid plans to keep the staff count flat through the year and streamline costs. The reductions affect less than 1 percent of Uber's global workforce. The ride-share company laid off 150 employees in its freight services division earlier this year.

CEO David Risher told employees in a meeting that they would be required to come back into the office at least three days a week.

Uber has accused one of its former employees of embezzling over Rs 1 crore by sneaking in fake driver profiles in the company's list of drivers, police said on Tuesday.

Uber on Monday said it was probing the data breach of a third-party vendor after it was reported that the data of 77,000 employees was leaked along with source code for the Uber and Uber Eats mobile device management platforms. The company's vendor, Teqtivity, said it doesn’t collect or store sensitive information such as bank account details or ...

Uber's former chief of security, Joseph Sullivan, was found guilty by a US jury of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge of a breach from authorities. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver's license numbers, according t...

Uber has reportedly said that a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was behind the cyberattack that caused the company to close down several of its internal communications and engineering systems temporarily last week. The hacker reportedly compromised the account of an employee's workplace messaging app Slack and used it to send a mes...

Uber has announced a fresh round of recruitment for its India tech centres and plans to hire 500 additional tech employees by December 2022. The hiring will happen across its centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

Uber logged a net loss of $5.9 billion, the company said in its earnings report. The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States.

Yelp, the online review service, has announced that it'll cover travel expenses of employees who must travel out-of-state for abortions. This comes after Texas and other states in the US passed a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Dara Khosrowshahi said that Uber would make it mandatory for its white collar employees will need to be vaccinated

Uber will let employees work half their hours from wherever they want as part of its revamped return-to-office strategy, the transport app company plans to announce on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Uber said it expects its employees to return to office by September 13, making it one of the first major US tech companies to set a return date.