Platform Metathe company that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has announced a new workforce adjustment plan that would mean laying off about 10,000 workers and closing about 5,000 vacancies that are still unfilled, according to the multinational company, which By the end of 2022, it has already adjusted 11,000 jobs.

“All in all, we hope to reduce the size of our team by about 10,000 people and close about 5,000 additional open positions that we have not yet closed,” said Mark Zuckerberg. “It will be difficult and there is no other way out,” he said.

In this sense, the founder and CEO of the company indicated that Meta expects to announce restructuring layoffs in technology groups at the end of April, and then in business groups at the end of May.

However, he warned that in some cases it may take before the end of the year to complete the changeshowever, schedules for affected international teams may also differ.

“I hope to make these changes to the organization as early as possible this year so we can weather this period of uncertainty and focus on the important work ahead,” Zuckerberg said.

Thus, after the restructuring Meta plans to lift moratorium on hiring and transfers in each group.

The company also considers complete your analysis of hybrid work this summer to further improve its distributed work model, while also trying to maintain a constant stream of developer productivity improvements and process improvements throughout the year.

In early February, Meta announced that it had received net income $23.2 billion (21,725 ​​million euros) in 2022, down 41% from the result recorded a year earlier, and its annual income was 116,609 million dollars (109,197 million euros), down 1.1%, than in 2021, representing the company’s first annual drop in turnover.

Looking to 2023, Meta CFO Susan Lee expressed confidence that first-quarter total revenue will be in the range of $26-28.5 billion, while she estimates full-year total spending will be between $89,000 and $95 billion. 000 million dollars (81,609 and 87,110 million euros), compared with the previous prospect between 94,000 and 100,000 million dollars (86,194 and 91,695 million euros).