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Uber lays off 40% of Cairo office, largest in Middle East

The layoffs come amid global cuts as the coronavirus pandemic sees revenues drop.
Employees work inside Uber's Centre of Excellence (COE) office in Cairo, Egypt October 10, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RC14851C04A0

Uber fired hundreds of office staff in Egypt via email Wednesday, cutting the company’s office workforce in the country by some 40% as part of its global layoffs amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The cuts came as Uber announced it was laying off some 3,700 employees worldwide out of the company’s nearly 27,000 employees.

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