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        <title><![CDATA[Uber lays off 3,500 workers in 3-minute Zoom call]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Uber</strong> laid off 3,500 people &#8212; <strong>in a 3-minute Zoom call </strong>&#8212; last week.</p><p>&#8220;Today will be your last working day with Uber,&#8221; company manager Ruffin Chevaleau informed customer-support employees in a video phone call, according to footage obtained by the Daily Mail.</p><p>&#8220;Right now, the rides business is down by more than half due to COVID-19,&#8221; said Chevaleau, who oversees customer service for Uber. &#8220;The difficult and unfortunate reality is there is not enough work for many front-line customer-support employees.</p><p>&#8220;As a result, we are eliminating 3,500 front-line customer-support roles,&#8221; she said &#8212; or about about 14 percent of ride-share-app&#8217;s work force.</p><p>&#8220;I know that this is incredibly hard to hear,&#8221; Chevaleau said, fighting to choke back tears. &#8220;No one wants to be on a call like this.</p><p>&#8220;I know that this is a lot to take in.&#8221;</p><p>She said she was giving the devastating news in a video phone call because she &#8220;wanted to deliver this news personally.</p><p>&#8220;You will remain on payroll until the date notice of your severance package,&#8221; the manager added before turning the call over to a human-resources rep.</p><p>One of the axed workers later griped to the Mail, &#8220;I would have prefer to have had notice.</p><p>&#8220;The day before, we were told we would know in two weeks what departments would be let go.</p><p>&#8220;If I missed that Zoom call, I would have missed the news.&#8221;</p><p>The company last week <strong>filed a document</strong> with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission saying it <strong>planned to lay off 3,700</strong> full-time workers because of the &#8220;economic challenges and uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.&#8221;</p><p>Company CEO Dara Khosrowshahi also agreed to waive the rest of his base salary for the year, the filing said. The exec&#8217;s salary was around $1 million last year, although much of his compensation is through stock.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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