The bank had previously ordered more employees to return to the office September 21, citing a decline in worker productivity at home.
A JPMorgan equities trading employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to Bloomberg, leading the bank to send some Manhattan workers home ahead of a planned return to the office next week for more workers at the banking giant.Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty ImagesThe employee reportedly worked on the fifth floor of JPMorgan’s 383 Madison Ave. building, according to Bloomberg, citing an anonymous person who knew of the matter, which was not public prior to Tuesday.
JPMorgan employees were told on Sunday about their colleague testing positive for the coronavirus, Bloomberg reported.from JPMorgan’s C-suite for their senior sales and trading employees to return to the office September 21.Monday that JPMorgan’s worker productivity plummeted among younger workers at the beginning and end of each workweek, citing an analyst note, but a bank spokesperson later clarified that the productivity hit was observed across the workforce.
The reported COVID-19 infection highlights concerns about bringing people back together in shared spaces, as theJPMorgan spokesman Brian Marchiony toldhe couldn’t comment on any one [coronavirus] case but that the bank has been “managing individual cases across the firm over the course of the last few months and following appropriate protocols when they occur.”50%.
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