Meta, which cut 13% of its workforce at the end of last year, is preparing for another round of layoffs, and therefore delaying the final budgeting of several departments, the Financial Times reports, citing informed sources.

Due to the lack of clarity on the budget or future staffing, in recent weeks, employees have begun to complain that work has stopped because they cannot plan the future work and its scope.

Approval of projects and decisions now takes nearly a month in some cases, even in high-priority domains including the metaverse and advertising, in the case when this process used to take just a few days. According to one of the sources, some teams' budgets usually run out before the end of the year, and now those departments are facing a problem.

During the quarterly report, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had told investors that they were planning to make 2023 the company "year of efficiency." "The year of efficiency is kicking off with a bunch of people getting paid to do nothing," one employee told the Financial Times.

Also in the quarterly report, Zuckerberg had said that his team is working to simplify the company's organizational structure and remove middle managers so that decisions can be made more quickly. He also indicated that the company will be "more proactive" in cutting low-performing and non-priority programs.

According to the source, in case of job cuts, the managers will be proposed either to move to such positions where they will not manage anyone, but will have to do specific other work, or to leave the company.

Bloomberg reported earlier that many middle managers are now proposed to write code, design, and conduct research. Some Meta employees have expressed the view that these changes are necessary because, they say the company has several teams working on similar problems, as well as managers who oversee only one or two employees.

Starting from the end of 2022, a number of companies in the IT sector began massively reducing their staff. Microsoft, Amazon, Pinterest, IBM, Lam Research, Xiaomi, HP, Vimeo, Micron Technology, PayPal, Miro, Splunk, eBay, NetApp, Unity Software, and many more have recently reported layoffs.