Employees at the Daily Express and Sunday Express in the United Kingdom have learned that Express Newspapers has a plan for reporters to put their stories directly into page templates, which could put up to 80 sub-editors, or copy editors, out of work, Media Guardian reported Wednesday.

After reporters put their stories onto pages, rewriters and lawyers would check the pages.

“The loss of revenues means inevitable cost cuts to ensure our long-term survival,” Ian Parrott, Express Newspapers group managing editor, stated in an e-mailed memo to staff, according to Media Guardian. “We are therefore proposing to introduce the direct input of copy by reporters and writers into the system. Pages would be envisaged by the backbench and drawn by the designers as now. The reporters would be sent a shape for the stories, containing all the necessary type and styles and they would fit their copy to that shape.

“Once finished, the reporters/writers would check in their story shape and the words would be edited by the newsdesk and a team of rewriters/editors who would also write the headlines and make any necessary changes. Our night lawyers would check the stories as they do at present,” he stated, according to Media Guardian. “As a consequence, we also plan to lose all our current casuals in production in London plus a number of people who support production such as those who act as messengers.”

Parrott also stated that the company proposed all staff work a five-day week, Media Guardian reported. “These efficiencies are vital to the secure future of the Daily and Sunday Express in a very challenging period.”