CNBC spoke with several Wall Street players to see how they are adjusting to the new reality of working from home.
Both the CME Group and the New York Stock Exchange closed their trading floors last month.
A man cleans up on the trading floor, following traders testing positive for Coronavirus disease , at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020.The coronavirus pandemic has roiled capital markets, but it has also led to something that was once unthinkable on Wall Street: working from home for a prolonged period of time.
Fromhertz and his girlfriend set up shop at her parents' house in Ohio, which is currently empty while they spend winter and part of the spring in Florida. There, instead of a trading desk with five monitors, he has one "really big" monitor and two laptops, limiting his "screen real estate." "If we were working from home in Hoboken, we'd be talking over each other while we were on our calls, which would not be good," he said.
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