Uber has apologised after it emerged the taxi hailing company had separate bathrooms for office-based staff and drivers.
After visiting its office in the US state of Rhode Island, a driver tweeted a photo of two bathrooms.
One showed a sign for 'Partners' and the one next to it read 'Employees'.
This led to an assumption that partners referred to drivers for the firm, while employees meant those based in the offices.
Driver Erika Betts tweeted the photo and said: "The Uber hub in my market has designated bathrooms.
"Not for male/female, but for partner & employee.
"Anyone else think it's strange that Uber views partners & employees as two separate classes of people?".
The @Uber hub in my market has designated bathrooms. Not for male/female, but for partner & employee.
Anyone else think it's strange that Uber views partners & employees as two separate classes of people? pic.twitter.com/3SGeKSae3g— Erika Betts (@ErikaABetts) December 4, 2019
In a statement to Vice News, an Uber spokesperson said: "This was a mistake and we regret it.
"We are removing the signs and have made it clear that this was not appropriate."
The taxi hailing app recently lost its licence to operate in London.
The regulator in the British capital, TfL, said this was because of 'several breaches' - including vulnerabilities with the app that allowed unauthorised drivers to carry thousands of passengers.
Uber can still appeal and continue to operate during that period.
The firm has over 22,000 employees and operates in 63 countries and more than 700 cities worldwide - including Dublin.
As of December 2018, it said it had 91 million monthly active users and 3.9 million drivers.
Some 10 billion trips have been completed worldwide.
However, it has faced some obstacles in Ireland.
An application for it to run a pilot ride sharing scheme in Limerick was turned down by the Government in 2017.
Headquartered in California, it has offices in New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle and Los Angeles - as well as London and Amsterdam.
