All but four people on the desk have been with us at least 5 years. 12 years 13. We're almost entirely paginated. We use the SII Road Runner system, with PC-based workstations. We also use SII's Interactive News Layout program to paginate.
Every page is paginated now, with the exception of stocks, legals and obits.
Last 2 hires, though, did not have tryouts. We used to give candidates a weeklong paid tryout. However, our last few hires did not try out. I do not know if this new policy is temporary or permanent. Management's stated reason was to cut costs.