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New York Times in civil war over WFH

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It’s a grim old time in Westminster at the moment. The Queen is dead, prices are up, inflation is rampant and a winter of discontent beckons. But, from the Big Apple itself, a ray of light at last. For the New York Times, the world’s worst newspaper best known for Brit-bashing Anglophobia, is embroiled in something close to civil war. The casus belli of this? A directive from on high that the paper’s hard-of-thinking hacks return to the office part-time, now that Covid has banished to the history books.

Unfortunately, not all at the ‘Gray Lady’ seem too pleased with this development. The paper’s local rival reports that more than 1,300 journalists have signed a pledge not to return to the office, even though bosses expect staff in only three days a week. It’s the latest flashpoint in an increasingly bitter row about wages.

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