...One of the nation's (possibly world's) most popular women's magazines (Glamour) has to completely purge itself of all its receptionists just to keep the magazine a float. Yes, you heard correctly. As of last week, infamous media company Conde Nast declared that they would be laying off ALL of their receptionists, therefore leaving the editorial staff to be responsible for directing calls & all other traffic that usually falls under the secretarial staff duties. The dismissal included Glamour's Betty Wales, who'd served as a receptionist for the company for 20+ years. The release of the receptionists also comes weeks after, Conde Nast (who has been grasping for straws in this recession for months) canceled their newspaper subscriptions & cut back on editoral content for most of their mags in an effort to save money. And just when they believed it couldn't get worse..... It did.
My greatest concern however, is what this drastic change will do to the editoral content of the magazines. With all of the additional strain added to the editors & staff writers, it should only be a matter of time before the work they do will take a plunge. But, only time will tell & hopefully we won't be bearing yet another magazine farewell.
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