Global Bank JPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs postponed workers’ plans to return to U.K. Office after the government extended the restrictions of Covid-19 to mid-July due to the spread of more contagious Delta variants.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which requires most of the staff A.S. To return to the office this week, told UK. Staff on Tuesday that working in the London office will remain voluntary for now, according to the memo seen by Reuters. Required social and masks, while the plan to return to a broader office was postponed until July, the bank said.
JPMorgan Chase & Co, which requires the majority of staff A.S. To return next month, notify employees based in UK. That the plan returned to an office that was extensive was postponed until July, according to the memo to his staff.
The investment bank has planned to bring more staff back to the office – rotated, subject to a 50% residential cover – on the fastest schedule.
For both banks, around 20-30% of staff have worked in the office for several months, which enabled them to resolve the social and healthy dying protocol.
But u.K. said delaying the full reopening until July 19 will allow him to get more people fully vaccinated. At present, around 41 million people have received their first shots and nearly 30 million have both doses – around 57% of the adult population.
The majority of Goldman Sachs employees have “have their first dose (from vaccines) or hope to accept it before Monday, June 21,” Richard Gnodde, head of Goldman Sachs International, wrote in the memo to the staff.
The study on Monday showed the Delta variant doubling the risk of hospitalization, but two vaccine doses made by Pfizer and Astrazeneca offer more than 90% protection against inpatients