Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)

Ride and delivery platform, drivers not employees. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 12 of the 48 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states approximately 34,000 employees, 20,300 outside the United States, running a platform whose drivers and couriers are independent, so the patterns follow the description of the employees' work (c).

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 29% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 67% at the end of 2028, 72% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 72% desk work, 24% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 28% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 55% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

34,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 20,300 of 34,000 employees are located outside the United States.

The filing: “Human Capital at Uber Employees We are a global company and as of December 31, 2025, we and our subsidiaries had approximately 34,000 employees globally and operations in over 70 countries and more than 15,000 cities around the world.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 34,000 employees in over 70 countries, 20,300 outside the United States; drivers and couriers earn income on the platform as independent workers and are not employees, as the filing states.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
• Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)24% now, 68% by 2028
• Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)23% now, 69% by 2028
• DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
• Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)23% now, 69% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

17 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names its growing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning as a source of risk (algorithm development, data sets, regulation) and AI-enabled platforms and digital assistants as a possible way consumers reach rides and deliveries without it.

• “Our growing use of artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning may present additional risks, including risks associated with algorithm development or use, the tools and data sets used, and/or a complex, developing regulatory environment.”
• “These risks include, among others: operational and compliance challenges caused by distance, language, and cultural differences; the resources required to localize our business, which requires the translation of our mobile app and website into foreign languages and the adaptation of our operations to local practices, laws, and regulations and any changes in such practices, laws, and regulations...”
• “For example, shifts in consumer behavior, including the use of new or emerging technologies, such as AI-enabled platforms and digital assistants, may disintermediate our relationship with consumers by controlling how our products are accessed, presented or selected, which could redirect demand to competitors and adversely affect our demand and growth.”
• “Our growing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning may present additional risks, including risks associated with algorithm development or use, the tools and data sets used, and/or a complex, developing regulatory environment.”
• “Our growing use of AI (including machine learning) in our business and offerings presents additional risks.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20214median 0
• Fiscal 20224median 0
• Fiscal 202313median 1
• Fiscal 202414median 4
• Fiscal 202517median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• Patterns by description (c): the filing counts employees by country, not by function.
• Drivers and couriers are independent workers on the platform, not employees, and are left out under rule 8.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001543151-26-000015, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.