BBC staff in tears at £2.6m cuts

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The BBC is cutting 41 roles in its sport department to save £2.6 million, a move announced to staff by director of sport Alex Kay-Jelski. Morale in the department is reportedly at an all-time low, and strike action is being considered in response.

The cuts include senior positions, though the specifics of which roles and how the savings will be achieved beyond headcount reduction were not detailed in what's been reported so far.

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Forty-one people lose their jobs so the ledger can show a smaller number, and the people announcing it always seem to keep theirs. It's the oldest trick in the institutional book: cut from the bottom, explain from the top. Staff in tears isn't a metaphor here, it's the actual described reaction, which tells you plenty about how this landed.

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