[bbctvtechop]

Oh, and on Covid - yes, national covid restrictions have been lifted for months, but the BBC still has them in operational areas to protect critical staff. Galleries, studios, editing suites, etc all have a designated maximum number of people at any one time, determined by the size of the room and set by management. There are large signs on every door into these areas with the number stated. In one of the galleries I operate in, the Autocue op has been on a temporary desk outside the gallery for 2.5 years; in another galley both Autocue AND the PRODUCER are outside the gallery! And in others the producer has to leave the gallery to talk face to face to their colleagues as other people from the newsroom could not enter the gallery without going over the person limit.

This is all made a mockery of by management waltzing in when they fancy.