The Uber board is reportedly considering asking CEO Travis Kalanick to temporarily step aside, with big changes planned for Uber\u2019s management practices.<\/p>\n
According to Reuters<\/strong><\/a>, the board has discussed Kalanick taking time off from the company.<\/p>\n \u201cThe discussion involved the possibility that Kalanick might return in a role with less authority, either in a position other than CEO – or as CEO with narrower responsibilities and subject to stronger oversight,\u201d stated Reuters.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Uber fired over 20 employees<\/strong><\/a> after an investigation into allegations of harassment.<\/p>\n The company said the investigation spanned issues relating to poor company culture, and further action is being taken against employees implicated.<\/p>\n Several of those whose employment was terminated held senior positions.<\/p>\n In April,\u00a0The New York Times reported<\/strong><\/a> that Uber violated Apple\u2019s iOS privacy guidelines and tried to cover it up.<\/p>\n According to the report, Kalanick met with Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding the matter in 2015.<\/p>\n It stated that Uber employees helped camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple\u2019s engineers.<\/p>\n The Uber board is reportedly considering asking CEO Travis Kalanick to temporarily step aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":215018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[40922,20853],"class_list":["post-215000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-travis-kalanick","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215020,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215000\/revisions\/215020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Uber makes $708 million loss<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"