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All home, omicron clears the offices of Wall Street banks. Goldman is the last to surrender, but from February 1, he prepares a hard punch

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Only Goldman Sachs was missing and yesterday dissolved the delay by inviting its US employees who can work remotely to do so until January 18. Goldman is the last of the Wall Street banks to take refuge in the return to smart working by virtue of the record wave of infections dictated by the widespread diffusion of the omicron variant in the USA.

Goldman Sachs, whose CEO David Solomon called remote working “an aberration”, until last week had continued to focus on office work by introducing new requirements and tests. Goldman employees must be vaccinated to enter the office and, starting February 1st, a booster will be required for all employees eligible to receive the new dose. Goldman also announced that starting January 10, staff entering the office would be tested twice a week at the bank’s Covid testing centers, up from the current once-a-week requirement.

Goldman, which has 43,000 employees, many of them Manhattan-based, had recalled the majority of office workers in June 2021.

A fairly rigid position also that of JP Morgan Chase. The largest US bank has given its staff the flexibility to work from home in the first two weeks of the year, but wants them to return to office hours no later than February 1. “We are not changing our long-term office work plans,” said the bank’s operations committee, which has not yet required its employees to be vaccinated. “Government issued vaccination warrants could likely make it difficult or impossible for us to continue hiring unvaccinated employees, so getting the vaccine is very important,” says JPM.

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Jamie Dimon, JPM’s historic CEO, last spring pointed out how the pandemic has accelerated a trend, but agile work “doesn’t work for young people. It doesn’t work for those who want to make a career and it doesn’t work in terms of spontaneous generation of ideas ”.

Citigroup asked its US employees to work from home for the first few weeks of the new year and will continue to monitor data and provide updates in January on when they are due to return to the office. Simle approach for Bank of America which encouraged US employees to work from home the week of January 3 and will provide updates based on the spread of the infection.

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