Goldman Sachs Delays Return To Office For U.S. Staff – Here’s Where Wall Street Firms Stand On In-Person Work

January 13, 2022, 11:50am

Goldman Sachs, one of the most aggressive Wall Street firms committed to in-person work, pushed back bringing U.S. staff back into the office for the second time in less than two weeks to February 1, it said Thursday.
Kena Betancur takes a photo of the New York Stock Exchange.

The images are from the same company.

Goldman's workers were told earlier this month that they could work from home for two more weeks, and a Goldman spokesman confirmed to Forbes.

The recent surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant is pushing back Wall Street firms' plans to resume in-person work.
In February of 2021, Goldman CEO David Solomon said that work from home was not ideal for the company and that it would be fixed as soon as possible.

Goldman will require Covid-19 booster shots to work in its offices on February 1st and will double Covid testing to twice a week for office workers.
Wall Street firms are requiring employees to get vaccinations in order to work in their offices. The company said it is requiring U.S. staff to get tested for Covid-19 three times a week. Unvaccinated workers in New York will not be allowed to work from home and will not be paid, according to Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan. He said that they wouldn't pay you not to work in the office. U.S. staff can work from home until this week, but they don't have a vaccine policy. Last week, Citigroup made it clear that employees who aren't up to date on their Covid vaccinations will be fired at the end of the month. Bank of America delayed its return to office until January 17 because of a memo that encouraged workers to get fully vaccine, according to a report.
New York City mayor Eric Adams supports Wall Street firms efforts to bring workers back to work. In an interview with Bloomberg TV last week, Adams said that large employers should resume in-person work schedules as soon as possible.

The number is big.

64.7%. As of Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that there were over 200 million Americans who had been fully vaccined against Covid-19. Studies have shown that being fully vaccined reduces the risk of hospitalization or severe disease even after people test positive for the virus. A majority of people had received a booster shot.

The return to office of Goldman Sachs will be delayed to wait out the Covid Surge.

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Citigroup will fire unvaccinated office employees at the end of January.

Wall Street is being pushed toward work-from- home future by Omicron.