Uber cut 10% of staff and the memo names coordination overhead, not AI.

Dara Khosrowshahi's September 2 post attributes the reduction to excessive coordination layers, unclear decision authority, fragmented teams (three separate Delivery Ops groups merging into one), too many management layers and a scattered global location strategy. No AI or automation rationale appears anywhere in the announcement, which cuts against the reflex of reading every 2026 tech layoff as an AI displacement story.