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Could someone please explain to me why does Uber has 12,000 employees? Drivers are not employees, there is no content to curate, no brick & mortar operation, th
by dandare 9y ago
Could someone please explain to me why does Uber has 12,000 employees? Drivers are not employees, there is no content to curate, no brick & mortar operation, the app and tech stack is pretty much developed and stable. Sure the Otto and UberEATS are now part of Uber but still.
- hboon 9y agoThey are active in more than 600 cities. Even assuming tech support, design, engineering and R&D staff are negligible, 20 employees per city seems to make sense. Partnership, Marketing, legal, operations, vehicle rentals. Their software might scale and business model replicable across many cities, but they still need people on the ground running.
- dandare 9y agoAll those cities are located in less than 100 states. What are those people on the ground doing?
- robbiemitchell 9y agoYou need people on the ground to recruit and hire drivers, hand out ride incentives (especially on campuses), manage out-of-home advertising and local events, manage the in-city staff... It's easy to think everything is handled online via digital advertising, but ops-heavy businesses like this require bodies on the ground.
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