India, Sept. 3 -- A 10-year Uber veteran who rose from a rideshare driver to a corporate role shared a moving reflection after being caught in the company's 10% mass layoffs. Finding out via a 4 AM email, he recalled his decade-long journey and urged impacted colleagues to stay hopeful.

The US-based employee started a LinkedIn post by sharing an incident in which he had to cancel an event in August due to a natural disaster. "Everything happens for a reason. I was supposed to fly to Hawaii on Aug 22. The hurricane that hit the islands knocked out our Airbnb, so we canceled and took a staycation." He continued, "And then, this morning at 4 am my phone rang with an email. I don't know what possessed me to check it at 4 am, but I did. Every...