Uber Freight layoffs: about 80 jobs cut as the company hires for 290 openings

Employees learned of the cuts on Tuesday. They span several departments, according to an internal memo from CEO Rebecca Tinucci that FreightWaves obtained. The company said it wants to remove duplicate jobs and layers of management and to move some work between teams, including operations and marketplace. People who lost their jobs get severance and help with the transition, the company said.

Uber Freight told FreightWaves it hired 55 people in the last 30 days. Most of the open jobs are in managed transportation, where the company says deal volume is 2.5 times what it was a year ago. Others are on the client engagement team, which supports shippers that use Uber Freight's transportation management system. That team recently added 18 people. The company called the layoffs an operational adjustment and said freight market conditions were not the reason.

Offices are being consolidated as well. Staff in Frisco, Texas, will move to an Uber office in Dallas in early 2027. The Tinley Park, Ill., office has closed, and its employees now work from Uber space in Chicago. In Europe, the company is also weighing what to do with its office in Leusden, Netherlands, which it says has run out of room.

Uber Freight said no further rounds of cuts are planned. The report did not say whether carrier-facing teams, such as carrier support or payments, were among the roles eliminated.