“ The benefits of sitting together, collaborating in person, and solving problems as a team are clearer than ever in our post-Covid world.”

100%. Speaking only for myself, I was fully remote for a few years and that was a miserable experience. Now everyone is mandated to be in office 3 days a week and that works better for me. Uber is going one step further and structuring teams to be colocated with their manager. That solves the problem of team members distributed across multiple offices, which is still a real pain point in the hybrid model.

I know some people who strictly prefer fully remote setup. Over time, I think companies and employees will self sort themselves into those who prefer office vs those who prefer remote. That should work out for most of us.

I've heard this at other companies and it's almost always an issue of upper management holding too much control over decision making, or poorly communicating actual business objects, but it's project managers and middle management that will bear the brunt of the layoffs.

I don't get it. Too much time is spent coordinating, so fire those who are responsible for coordination? Am I reading this wrong?

So TPMs are getting the axe? Product managers too?

This is a common strategy nowadays. Not sure of the rationale

Layoff note mentions AI => it's not AI

Layoff note omits AI => it's AI

I am onboard with the idea that corporate messaging is typically anything but forthright but I don't see the logic here.

Uber was one of the first to admit that AI isn't all it's hyped up to be.