Since early 2007 Dutch newspaper publisher PCM has occupied a light, spacious and transparent building made largely of glass. It shares the 33,000 square metre INIT building on Oostenburgereiland in Amsterdam with a variety of other companies. Divided by wide ‘streets', the overall impression produced is of an indoor town, complete with its own parking garage as well as large outdoor car park. Additional security for PCM staff is provided by an IP-based CCTV system designed by local system integrator Alphatron using a Geutebruck platform and management software.
The 850 PCM workstations in the INIT building are occupied by editors, advertising sales people and subscription management staff who work on the national newspapers De Volkskrant, Trouw and the online activities of DAG. Security issues faced by the company have ranged from irate manufacturers objecting to the publication of unfavourable product research, to the bombing of their printing plant elsewhere in Amsterdam. Although, according to Cees Versendaal, the facility manager responsible for the PCM sites in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, security played a major role in the choice of location, the building itself did not provide sufficient security for the company's needs and further measures were required.
