Telegraph Providing Employees £2,000 Bounty to Discover Replacements As Evans’ “Reign of Terror” Prompts Exodus
Chris Evans’s “Reign of Terror” at Telegraph towers is having penalties past a backlash from staff. Along with the same old sackings, the paper is now dealing with an “exodus” of workers, in response to whistleblowers. Guido’s newsroom moles reveal that the state of issues has acquired so unhealthy senior managers are actually distributing flyers on each desk within the London HQ, titled “It pays to know folks”. You’d hope you wouldn’t have to inform that to a room of journalists…
The flyer’s proposition is easy: workers might earn £2,000 for each new starter they carry into the Telegraph household. In addition to the purple pamphlets on every desk, a big discover has additionally been erected on the entrance to the newsroom with the identical “It pays to know folks” message, and emails from Mark Musgrave their “Chief Folks’s Officer” have additionally been hitting inboxes.
There are, the mole reviews, now “leaving drinks” emails from workers each week, typically a number of; “the frequent sound of individuals being “banged out” of the workplace, as is custom, has develop into deafening.”
Whistleblowers attribute hacks abandoning ship to 1 main criticism: the ban on working from house. The coverage was launched after the pandemic in September 2021 and is seen as significantly nonsensical given most workers solely chat on-line anyway. This stands in distinction to different papers, lots of which have adopted a hybrid method to work.
“The reason being ideological, and right down to an absence of belief from managers of their very own workers, which is why administration tradition and WFH is so typically cited by these leaving. Ironic, although, how the Telegraph’s HR flooring is at all times empty as a result of they’re WFH.”
Employees are apparently exhausted, the poor dears. In the meantime the paper’s columnists are sometimes discovered submitting op-eds from the consolation of their properties concerning the outrage of individuals not returning to places of work…
