Uber lays off almost a quarter of its HR and recruitment staff, but says it has nothing to do with AI Uber's layoffs affected less than 1% of the company's global workforce, a company spokesperson said. Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit Uber is laying off nearly a quarter of its People and Places staff — but not because of AI, the company said. The department oversees teams from human resources to recruitment. The job cuts amount to less than 1% of Uber's global workforce of 34,000 employees, a spokesperson said. The layoffs come less than a month after Uber named Jill Hazelbaker to the newly created role of chief corporate affairs officer and president.…