Meta Platforms, the company that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram,

has announced a new workforce adjustment plan that will mean the dismissal of some 10,000 workers, as well as the closure of around 5,000 vacancies still not covered, as reported by the multinational , which at the end of 2022 already undertook an adjustment of 11,000 jobs.

"Overall, we expect to reduce the size of our team by around 10,000 people and close around 5,000 additional open positions that we haven't hired yet,"

Mark Zuckerberg said.

"This will be difficult and there is no way around it," he said.

In this sense, the founder and CEO of the company has indicated that

Meta expects to announce restructuring and layoffs in its technology groups at the end of April

and then in its business groups at the end of May.

However, he has warned that in some cases it may take until the end of the year to complete the changes, while the timetable for affected international teams may also vary.

"My hope is to make these changes to the organization as early in the year as possible so that we can get through this period of uncertainty and focus on the critical work that lies ahead," Zuckerberg said.

Thus, after the restructuring, Meta plans to lift the hiring and transfer freeze in each group.

The company also plans to complete its hybrid work analysis this summer to further refine its distributed work model, as well as try to keep a steady stream of developer productivity improvements and process improvements throughout the year.

At the beginning of February,

Meta reported that it obtained a net profit of 23,200 million dollars (21,725 ​​million euros) in 2022,

which represented a drop of 41% compared to the result recorded a year earlier, while its annual income added a total of 116,609 million dollars (109,197 million euros), 1.1% less than in 2021, which represents the first annual drop in the company's turnover.

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

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