A news editor at The Telegraph says: “On March 6, I settled down at my desk to work, blissfully ignorant of what was to follow. I suddenly got an email that said my service was no longer required and that I had been removed with immediate effect.” He noticed another colleague sobbing in her cubicle. She too had received a termination letter. “I heard some colleagues at the digital desk shouting; several others were crying, unable to bear the suddenness of it all. On the other hand, in other departments, there was a stunned silence; they were too shocked to even react.”