Before coming to Fox, Beck worked at CNN, where, he said, he had an office that looked out on an open-plan office area where producers and reporters had their desks.

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As a result, our existing office area was redesigned to become open plan as it was the only way everyone (20 people from the other building) could be accommodated.

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