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Goldman Sachs lifts all COVID protocols, orders staff to return to office full-time
NY Post ^ | 30 August A.D. 2022 | Lydia Moynihan

Posted on 08/30/2022 4:58:58 PM PDT by lightman

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs will lift all COVID protocols that have kept some workers away as it pushes all employees to return to the office five days a week after Labor Day, The Post has learned.

In a memo sent Tuesday obtained by The Post, Goldman Sachs told workers it will no longer require vaccines, COVID testing or masks — a signal it won’t accept excuses for employees who claimed COVID as a reason for working from home.

“There is significantly less risk of severe illness,” the memo stated. “In line with [the CDC’s] updated protocols, if you have not been coming in to the office, please speak with your manager to ensure that you understand and adhere to your division’s current return to office expectations.”

The official memo comes just days before the bank expects all employees to return to its offices five days a week, sources add.

“This is another way of Goldman Sachs saying, ‘School’s in session and we want you in person’ after Labor Day,” Wells Fargo bank analyst Mike Mayo told The Post.

“Goldman is the ultimate customer-facing firm and it’s tough to face customers remotely.”

Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo says this is Goldman’s way of saying “School’s in session.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: covid1984; goldmansachs; remotework; workfromhome
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This is Goldman's way of saying
"COVID so 2019--get over it, get on with it!"

1 posted on 08/30/2022 4:58:58 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

The real reason: Get back in the offices before Gov Abbott sends more illegals to NYC and Comrade Mayor Adams seizes the buildings to house his new sanctuary guests.


2 posted on 08/30/2022 5:04:25 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: lightman

Libs are gonna gaslight saying it never happened and all the lockdowns are myth.


3 posted on 08/30/2022 5:06:20 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

That and they are loosing millions and millions in leases that are unused.


4 posted on 08/30/2022 5:06:54 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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That and they are loosing millions and millions in leases that are unused....

or, at best, underutilized.

5 posted on 08/30/2022 5:09:07 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Exactly! ...until they devise the next fear campaign to steal the next election.


6 posted on 08/30/2022 5:13:19 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: lightman
Just heard a manager discussing today that companies are forcing the return-to-office to reduce staff, because lots of people will quit rather than work onsite.

The companies won't have to pay unemployment, and they want to scale down anyway. Biden's booming economy cited.

7 posted on 08/30/2022 5:13:42 PM PDT by meadsjn (, )
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Just heard a manager discussing today that companies are forcing the return-to-office to reduce staff, because lots of people will quit rather than work onsite.

Elon Musk said they can "pretend to work somewhere else".

8 posted on 08/30/2022 5:15:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: lightman

Excellent! More prey as they commute to work for New York criminals. 😀


9 posted on 08/30/2022 5:21:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: lurk
>Libs are gonna gaslight saying it never happened and all the lockdowns are myth.

They will blame it on Trump and get away with it, just like blaming Nixon for the Vietnam war, and anyone who refutes it will get banned from the media, which today means Twitter and Facebook.

10 posted on 08/30/2022 5:22:07 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Employers definitely have a love-hate relationship with the whole “work-from-home” regime.

Goldman Sachs may find it hard to imbue their new employees with its particular (unique?) corporate culture when they insist on working from home.


11 posted on 08/30/2022 5:31:15 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: meadsjn

Gov Youngkin did that in VA with state employees. Thousands quit rather than go back to the office.


12 posted on 08/30/2022 5:48:30 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: MinorityRepublican

That, is hilarious.


13 posted on 08/30/2022 5:49:25 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: vivenne
That, is hilarious.

Yep the party is over. The economy is going in a recession. So any leverage the employees had over their employers is now gone. Hopefully that will put things back to what they were before 2020.

14 posted on 08/30/2022 5:52:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“Libs are gonna gaslight saying it never happened and all the lockdowns are myth.”

You mean like Fauci said he never shut down anything?


15 posted on 08/30/2022 5:56:04 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

LOL!! “pretend to work”.


16 posted on 08/30/2022 5:57:01 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

As far as I know, NYC still has a vaccine requirement for all employers.


17 posted on 08/30/2022 6:06:41 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: meadsjn

And then they wonder what happened to productivity and their knowledge base....


18 posted on 08/30/2022 7:59:18 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: lightman

Saw some friends, both of whom were just over covid for a second time. I suggested they get shots. They had, all four. I suggested they get at least 2 more boosters. They asked about us. Hell no, we are getting any shots. Haven’t had a problem.


19 posted on 08/30/2022 8:51:42 PM PDT by healy61
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To: healy61

I’m not a betting man but I’d better that they have more “advanced degrees” than you do.

In the Pennsylwania Dutch country we call that:

“Too soon ault und too late schmardt”


20 posted on 08/30/2022 8:54:28 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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