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Trinity Mirror boss visits Bucks Advertiser as reporters go remote
Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, met Buckinghamshire Advertiser reporter Polly Manser and toured the paper's new production centre to witness first hand new remote working practices.
Ms Bailey met reporter Polly Manser in Costa Coffee in Uxbridge. Polly demonstrated filing copy and an image via a laptop to Trinity Mirror Southern's new production centre in Chertsey.
Until this month journalists had to return to the Advertiser's offices in Chesham to file copy. Now all have been issued with laptops and cameras and are filing copy and images from coffee shops, libraries, motorway service stations or anywhere they can get a signal.
Ms Bailey toured a hot desking area for journalists and advertising sales staff at the company's Uxbridge office with managing director Simon Edgley, multi media Director Lee Hinchcliffe and commercial director Amanda Ducas.
She then travelled to the production centre in Chertsey where she watched production staff upload copy and image onto the web.
Ms Bailey said: "I am hugely impressed by this system and I'm really excited by the flexibility it gives our staff. We need to be able to attract top quality journalists. Polly wouldn't be able to work full time without this system because she has children. The technology is impressive but I'm really struck by how it will enable us to provide flexible working arrangements."
Journalists on the Buckinghamshire Advertiser - Polly Manser for Beaconsfield and Jack Abell for Gerrards Cross and Chalfont St Peter - are now working remotely but our offices Germain Street, Chesham, remain open as a hot desking areas.
Polly is now working full time. Contact her on 07795 800063 or email pollymanser@trinitysouth.co.uk
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