Tag: Uber

Only about a week back, Uber had made headlines for the manner in which it had asked about 3,700 employees to leave, over multiple...

Uber has reportedly laid off nearly 3,700 employees via multiple Zoom calls, with each calling lasting less than three minutes conveying a common message...

With the pandemic and related restrictions imposed by nations across the world, the demand for app-based rides fell drastically over the last couple of...

A federal judge at a Brazilian higher court for labour has ruled that there is no employer-employee relationship between Uber and its drivers. His...

Uber, the ride-sharing company, has announced the launch of its second Centre of Execellence (COE) in India, at Visakhapatnam. This new COE will create...

Around 350 Uber employees were laid off on 14 October, most of whom belonged to the advanced technologies group (ATG) of the ride-hailing company....

Uber, the American ride-hailing service, is gearing up to foray into on-demand job services. Uber Works, its new app, is aimed at helping job seekers...

Uber Technologies has been caught up in a legal argument wherein the Company has been trying to prove that its drivers are simply independent...

Anthony Levandowski, who was an engineer and one of the founding members of the self-driving car project at Google, was accused of stealing trade...

Hiring for software and services has been temporarily frozen at Uber Technologies, for the US and Canada operations, in the face of growing losses. The...

Post lay off of over 400 Uber staff members recently, the Uber alumni network and other tech employees have posted hundreds of job vacancies...

Ride-hailing company, Uber, is reducing its 1200 strong global marketing team by 400, in order to bring down costs and do away with overlapping...

There are many examples of strategic alliances in India, where two organisations have come together to achieve a certain goal. One such example is...

Ryan Graves, former VP-global operations at Uber, the American multinational transportation network company, has stepped down from the Company’s board of directors. Interestingly, Uber very...

According to a survey by Glassdoor, that identifies companies with highest median monthly pay for interns in the US, Facebook pays its interns $8,000,...

Ride-share company, Uber, is all set to make India its product-design hub. It plans to recruit 1000 people each for its engineering divisions in...

Uber is readying to expand its engineering and product teams across its technology centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Presently, Uber Engineering India has over...

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The cab service company continues to attract attention for all the wrong reasons.

The transportation network company will replace self-test drivers with mission specialists.

The Company started investigation allegations that Liane Hornsey systematically dismissed internal complaints of racial discrimination.

Reddy will now head the HR function for Australia, New Zealand, and North Asia, in addition to India & South Asia.

From focussed efforts to improve upon diversity and inclusion, to working around the new cultural norms, Uber is driving change from all directions.

Ola and Uber have begun focussing on profits and cutting costs

The Company is all set to enhance the driver–partner experience.

Khosrowshahi, CEO of Expedia, will replace Travis Kalanick who stepped down in June.Dara Khosrowshahi to be new CEO of Uber

Globally, Uber has been under lots of criticism in terms of people management especially on sexual harassments and gender discrimination. Reddy will have a tough task as the new chief people officer for India and South Asia.

It has hired Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei as SVP for leadership and strategy function.

The cab service provider has reportedly fired more than 20 people following an internal investigation into harassment claims.

In line with its plan to provide improved services, the company is looking to hire product managers, data scientists and designers.

The Gig economy model offered by Curasion involves temporary positions, independent/freelance workers and short-term contractual engagements.

The drivers of these cab aggregators have complained against the arbitrary payment deductions on unsubstantiated grounds. Neither is there any indemnity scheme for the driver, in case of fraud booking, nor is there any freedom to cancel bookings.

With the internal environment already boiling due to Susan Fowler’s allegations, the company had to take stern decisions to avoid further blow-ups

Former employee, Susan Fowler, wrote a blog accusing HR at Uber of mishandling her situation.

Hornsey has been a VP at Google and is current operating partner at SoftBank.

Abhijit Bhaduri, chief learning officer, Wipro, in a conversation with George Anders, popular American business journalist and author of four books, on why a qualification in liberal arts is gaining importance in the corporate world, especially in IT companies.