Uber’s chief executive could be forced to take a leave of absence under changes being considered by the firm, reports say.<\/p>\n
A decision on whether to alter Travis Kalanick’s role was set to be taken at a meeting of Uber’s board on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Its members were also expected to vote on recommendations made in a review of its policies and corporate culture.<\/p>\n
The review was instigated in February after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler made claims of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
The board was expected to approve sweeping management changes recommended in the review conducted by former US Attorney General Eric Holder.<\/p>\n
It is possible that Mr Kalanick could take time off from Uber and then return to a role with less authority, or remain as chief executive but face more scrutiny, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n
Both Uber and Mr Kalanick have declined to comment.<\/p>\n
The New York Times reported that one of Mr Holder’s recommendations was that Emil Michael, Uber’s senior vice-president of business and a close confidant of Mr Kalanick, should leave the company.<\/p>\n
The company is expected to reveal its decisions by Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The board meeting comes just days after Uber said it had fired more than 20 people, and was taking other actions against staff, for issues including sexual harassment and bullying.<\/p>\n
If Mr Michael does leave it would be the latest high-profile departure from Uber.<\/p>\n
‘Grow up’<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week Uber’s finance chief, Gautam Gupta, said he was leaving, following New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, and the head of Uber’s self-driving unit, Anthony Levandowski, out of the door.<\/p>\n Mr Kalanick has earned a reputation as an abrasive leader and was criticised earlier this year after being caught on video berating an Uber driver.<\/p>\n He said in response to the video: “I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up.”<\/p>\n Uber board member Arianna Huffington said in March that Mr Kalanick needed to change his leadership style from that of a “scrappy entrepreneur” to be more like a “leader of a major global company”.<\/p>\n The board has been seeking to recruit a chief operating officer to assist the chief executive.<\/p>\n Some investors are concerned at the power Mr Kalanick has over Uber because of the number of voting shares he controls.<\/p>\n San Francisco-based Uber is valued at nearly $70bn (\u00a355bn) but is yet to make a profit.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uber’s chief executive could be forced to take a leave of absence under changes being considered by the firm, reports say. A decision on whether to alter Travis Kalanick’s role was set to be taken at a meeting of Uber’s board on Sunday. Its members were also expected to vote on recommendations made in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[3,114],"class_list":["post-327570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ghana-news","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}