[Transformation: Another Cube, by Martin Gee]
Alarmed by endless job cuts, a San Jose Mercury News designer shot photos of the Silicon Valley paper's increasingly empty newsroom, then published them on a Flickr Reduction In Force page, Editor & Publisher says. The News, once one of the nation's best regional papers, was sold to Gannett partner MediaNews Group after Knight Ridder's 2006 sale. MediaNews is now slowly dismantling the News.
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Amazing to see how eerily this looks like our department. Same phones. Same cube furniture. Same emptiness.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Cherry Hill, except our chairs are broken.
ReplyDeleteIt also looks like the sixth floor on the Gannett side of the twin towers in McLean, Va.
ReplyDeleteHell - can I have that furniture? You should see the dump we work in. I know, I know - I should be glad I have a job.
ReplyDeleteFor those keeping track, the sixth floor at corporate is one of the IT floors.
ReplyDeletesame thing I was thinking...nice chair. can we get those?
ReplyDeleteSeveral floors at McLean, VA look like that! EMPTY!! In fact some employees have gotten really creative and have taken down some cubes and turned them into lounge areas!
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