Uber Raises Office Mandate From 50% To 60%

Uber (#113 on the Fortune 500 list) is dialing up its office attendance mandate.

After nearly three years of hybrid flexibility with a target of 50% office attendance, Uber has announced a new return-to-office policy requiring three in-office days per week for all employees, including some who had previously been granted remote status.

Here’s everything we know about Uber’s return to office plan – current and previous policies.

Uber’s Return To Office: Current Policy

• Policy Announcement Date: April 29, 2025
• Policy Start Date: June 1, 2025
• Location Policy: Hybrid
• Office Visit Expectations: 3 Days/Week
• Previous Policy:
  • Oct 2022: 50% attendance, Tuesday & Thursday anchor days

Uber’s RTO Timeline

Oct 2022: 50% Office Attendance

On a page that is no longer live on Uber’s site, the company announced its first major RTO policy on October 4, 2022. You can view the page through the Wayback Machine.

Here’s what the page said:

At Uber we’ve embraced a hybrid work model, where most employees spend at least half of their work time in the office, with Tuesday and Thursday as ‘anchor days’ across the company.

Our approach is based on balancing flexibility, productivity, and collaboration. Having time to work remotely has benefits for individual productivity as well as balancing work/life demands. At the same time, employee feedback tells us that when people work in the office regularly they are more engaged, have a stronger sense of belonging and report overall higher satisfaction with work. 

To help maximize the benefits of in-person collaboration, from November 1, 2022 we’re introducing Tuesday and Thursday as anchor days, where all non-remote employees are expected to be in the office. This aims to address feedback that it has been challenging to coordinate with peers – especially across functions – on what days to come into the office.

In addition, employees can work from anywhere for up to four weeks per year. We also have flexibility for some employees to be fully remote, depending on their role and location. This enables us to hire and retain employees outside of our hub office locations.

Uber is a great place to work because we are a mission-driven company, operating in a hypercompetitive environment, solving hard problems. Our business also exists in the real world, on the streets of thousands of cities, and it’s important we stay connected to the places we serve. Our goal is to adopt work practices that help us benefit from flexibility while facilitating and maximizing the in person connections that make us #OneUber. 

Nikki Krishnamurthy
Chief People Officer

Apr 2025: 3 Days/Week

On April 29, Uber informed staff of the new policy in an internal memo.

Starting June 1, all employees will be expected to work from the office three days per week—specifically Tuesday through Thursday. This includes some remote employees who were previously approved to work from home full time.

According to CNBC, Uber will track attendance at both the individual and team level, though it didn’t clarify how that would affect performance reviews.

“After a thorough review of our existing remote approvals, we’re asking many remote employees to come into an office,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wrote in a Monday memo to employees viewed by CNBC. “In addition, we’ll hire new remote roles only very sparingly.”

Khosrowshahi added, “I want to emphasize that ‘good’ is not going to be good enough — we need to be great,” 

Apparently, going from 50% in-office to 60% in-office is the difference between good and great.

Uber is also changing its sabbatical program, increasing the required tenure from five years to eight.

Summary

The announcement states that Uber is now requiring three days per week in the office (or 60% office time). However, since 2022, Uber has required 50% attendance. There’s no big change there.

What appears to be the big change is Uber cracking down on fully remote workers – remote workers are also being called in three days per week and new roles likely won’t be remote.

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