Christophe Morin/IP3 Uber is closing its Los Angeles office, reportedly laying off about 80 staff members. According to the Los Angeles Times, the staff were informed, without warning, that their jobs would be shifted to Manila in the Philippines. The ride-hailing giant has pruned back its corporate workforce significantly since going public last May, culling more than 1,000 workers. Earlier this month, Uber revised its own estimate for when it'd become profitable, from 2021 to the fourth quarter of 2020. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Uber is closing its Los Angeles office, reportedly laying off about 80 staff members. According to the Los Angeles Times, the office's staff were informed — without warning — that their jobs would be shifted to Manila in the Philippines.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Inside the US government's top-secret bioweapons labSee Also:The CEO of a scooter startup owned by Ford explains why it's a good thing that his employees are unionizing — and how it could help Spin get a leg up on Bird and LimeWarren Buffett's right-hand man trashes the metric Uber is using for its ambitious plan to be profitable by the end of 2020From Elon Musk to Tim Cook, here's where the world's most influential tech founders and CEOs went to college — and what they studiedSEE ALSO: Uber 'whistleblower' Susan Fowler: New hires were told not to date Travis Kalanick