3月中旬,摩根士丹利首席執(zhí)行官詹姆斯·戈爾曼開始出現(xiàn)新型冠狀病毒感染癥狀,。在那之前他一直都是在辦公室上班,。之后,戈爾曼改為在家工作,。上周四,,他告知員工他的新冠病毒檢測結果已由陽性轉陰性。
疫情大流行期間,,那些最大的華爾街機構已經(jīng)讓大多數(shù)員工(包括數(shù)名首席執(zhí)行官)回家辦公,,因此每天仍在辦公室上班的領導層實在少之又少。
這些留守人士中就包括兩個非常有名的人物:高盛首席執(zhí)行官蘇德巍,,他一直堅守在高盛位于曼哈頓下城的總部,;以及美國銀行首席執(zhí)行官布萊恩·莫伊尼漢,他的辦公地點分布在波士頓的各個辦公室,。
兩位“留守高管”可謂特立獨行,,因為花旗銀行、富國銀行和摩根大通的首席執(zhí)行官們目前都在家辦公,。
摩根大通首席執(zhí)行官杰米·戴蒙在3月份進行了一次緊急的心臟手術并已順利出院,,他已在家辦公兩周。據(jù)一位發(fā)言人稱,,總部位于舊金山的富國銀行的首席執(zhí)行官查理·沙夫通常在銀行的紐約辦事處工作,,但過去兩周以來一直在家里打理銀行事務。據(jù)《華爾街日報》報道,,花旗銀行首席執(zhí)行官邁克爾·科巴特已經(jīng)在家里安裝了足夠多的網(wǎng)絡路由器以確保家庭辦公的需要,,并已于3月24日開始停止了辦公室辦公。
與此同時,,在疫情最嚴重的紐約市,,通常有12,000名員工的高盛紐約辦事處目前僅有60人堅守在辦公室,而首席執(zhí)行官蘇德巍便是其中之一,。如《財富》雜志在去年的“所羅門檔案”中首次報道的那樣,,他通常更喜歡乘坐地鐵,,但目前為了安全起見也在避免搭乘公共交通。據(jù)一位接近高盛的人士說,,他繼續(xù)“幾乎完全獨自一人”在辦公室里,,部分原因是蘇德巍正好就住在附近。(蘇德巍在紐約SoHo社區(qū)的住所距離高盛總部僅一英里多一點,。)該人士還補充說,,除了一些保安人員,以及通過計算機屏幕進行的視頻通話外,,“他(幾乎)看不到任何人”,。
蘇德巍上周在CNBC出鏡時說,高盛全球員工中有98%的人目前在遠程工作,。他說:“但是有些人確實必須在大樓里進行轉移資金和流程方面的操作,。因此,我一直將這里作為我的工作中心,。大樓里還有其他一些人,。我覺得我應該在這里,眼下只有很少的人在這棟建筑里工作,,這里一定是個非常安全的地方,。”
的確,,盡管蘇德巍與高盛的首席運營官約翰·沃爾德隆,,以及首席財務官斯蒂芬·謝爾一起在公司辦公,但他們已經(jīng)有效實施了社交隔離:只有所羅門在41樓工作,,那是高管們通常坐在一起的地方(盡管多數(shù)時候,,他是站在辦公桌前)。謝爾暫時搬到了29樓,,而沃爾德隆目前被安排在了位于哈德遜河對岸的高盛澤西城大樓里,。
不過,在上周與高盛全球所有員工舉行的內(nèi)部視頻會議上,,據(jù)一位參加會議的人士說,,蘇德巍強烈建議員工中的大多數(shù)人按照他所說的去做,繼續(xù)待在家里,,而不一定像他那樣去辦公室,。“這是我要做的,,而你們需要做的是,,按你們自己感到安全和舒適的方式來做。”
這個被蘇德巍稱為“全球會議廳”的設想,,是他自2018年出任高盛首席執(zhí)行官以來一直追求的目標,,但直到去年秋天還在因為技術上的原因而不能實現(xiàn)。由于疫情的原因,,銀行的工程團隊迅速開展工作并提升了電話會議的功能,,使其能夠支持近4萬名員工同時在線。目前,,高盛已經(jīng)連續(xù)兩周進行了這種虛擬會議廳的初步嘗試,。
當然,在辦公室會帶來額外暴露于冠狀病毒的風險,。戈爾曼的新冠病毒確診事件就表明,,沒有哪一個高管對COVID-19天生免疫。3月下旬,,投資銀行Jefferies的首席財務官,,現(xiàn)年56歲的Peg Broadbent死于新冠病毒,。
在上周的一期“巴倫訪談”節(jié)目中,,美國銀行的莫伊尼漢為他堅守辦公室的決定做了解釋。 “我很好”,,他說,。“我無法(在辦公室以外的什么地方)高效地處理大量的電話以及做好其他繁重的事情,。這座大樓里除了像呼叫中心這樣必不可少的員工外,,已經(jīng)空了。首席財務官,、我自己以及其他一些人仍須守在這里,。”
一些觀察人士對這些首席執(zhí)行官的健康表示出擔憂,。蘇德巍上周在Instagram上發(fā)布了一張照片,,顯示的是從高盛總部41層拍攝到的海軍醫(yī)療船USNS Comfort抵達紐約城時的情形。該條的第一位評論者留言說:“你為什么還呆在辦公室,,快回家,!”但是另一位留言的人寫道:“很高興看到,在人們需要領導者的那一刻,,你沒有離開這座城市,。”這句話后面跟著的是三個大大的贊,。(財富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:晨曦
3月中旬,,摩根士丹利首席執(zhí)行官詹姆斯·戈爾曼開始出現(xiàn)新型冠狀病毒感染癥狀。在那之前他一直都是在辦公室上班。之后,,戈爾曼改為在家工作,。上周四,他告知員工他的新冠病毒檢測結果已由陽性轉陰性,。
疫情大流行期間,,那些最大的華爾街機構已經(jīng)讓大多數(shù)員工(包括數(shù)名首席執(zhí)行官)回家辦公,因此每天仍在辦公室上班的領導層實在少之又少,。
這些留守人士中就包括兩個非常有名的人物:高盛首席執(zhí)行官蘇德巍,,他一直堅守在高盛位于曼哈頓下城的總部;以及美國銀行首席執(zhí)行官布萊恩·莫伊尼漢,,他的辦公地點分布在波士頓的各個辦公室,。
兩位“留守高管”可謂特立獨行,因為花旗銀行,、富國銀行和摩根大通的首席執(zhí)行官們目前都在家辦公,。
摩根大通首席執(zhí)行官杰米·戴蒙在3月份進行了一次緊急的心臟手術并已順利出院,他已在家辦公兩周,。據(jù)一位發(fā)言人稱,,總部位于舊金山的富國銀行的首席執(zhí)行官查理·沙夫通常在銀行的紐約辦事處工作,但過去兩周以來一直在家里打理銀行事務,。據(jù)《華爾街日報》報道,,花旗銀行首席執(zhí)行官邁克爾·科巴特已經(jīng)在家里安裝了足夠多的網(wǎng)絡路由器以確保家庭辦公的需要,并已于3月24日開始停止了辦公室辦公,。
與此同時,,在疫情最嚴重的紐約市,通常有12,000名員工的高盛紐約辦事處目前僅有60人堅守在辦公室,,而首席執(zhí)行官蘇德巍便是其中之一,。如《財富》雜志在去年的“所羅門檔案”中首次報道的那樣,他通常更喜歡乘坐地鐵,,但目前為了安全起見也在避免搭乘公共交通,。據(jù)一位接近高盛的人士說,他繼續(xù)“幾乎完全獨自一人”在辦公室里,,部分原因是蘇德巍正好就住在附近,。(蘇德巍在紐約SoHo社區(qū)的住所距離高盛總部僅一英里多一點。)該人士還補充說,,除了一些保安人員,,以及通過計算機屏幕進行的視頻通話外,“他(幾乎)看不到任何人”,。
蘇德巍上周在CNBC出鏡時說,,高盛全球員工中有98%的人目前在遠程工作。他說:“但是有些人確實必須在大樓里進行轉移資金和流程方面的操作。因此,,我一直將這里作為我的工作中心,。大樓里還有其他一些人。我覺得我應該在這里,,眼下只有很少的人在這棟建筑里工作,,這里一定是個非常安全的地方?!?/p>
的確,,盡管蘇德巍與高盛的首席運營官約翰·沃爾德隆,以及首席財務官斯蒂芬·謝爾一起在公司辦公,,但他們已經(jīng)有效實施了社交隔離:只有所羅門在41樓工作,,那是高管們通常坐在一起的地方(盡管多數(shù)時候,他是站在辦公桌前),。謝爾暫時搬到了29樓,,而沃爾德隆目前被安排在了位于哈德遜河對岸的高盛澤西城大樓里。
不過,,在上周與高盛全球所有員工舉行的內(nèi)部視頻會議上,,據(jù)一位參加會議的人士說,蘇德巍強烈建議員工中的大多數(shù)人按照他所說的去做,,繼續(xù)待在家里,,而不一定像他那樣去辦公室,?!斑@是我要做的,而你們需要做的是,,按你們自己感到安全和舒適的方式來做,。”
這個被蘇德巍稱為“全球會議廳”的設想,,是他自2018年出任高盛首席執(zhí)行官以來一直追求的目標,,但直到去年秋天還在因為技術上的原因而不能實現(xiàn)。由于疫情的原因,,銀行的工程團隊迅速開展工作并提升了電話會議的功能,,使其能夠支持近4萬名員工同時在線。目前,,高盛已經(jīng)連續(xù)兩周進行了這種虛擬會議廳的初步嘗試,。
當然,在辦公室會帶來額外暴露于冠狀病毒的風險,。戈爾曼的新冠病毒確診事件就表明,,沒有哪一個高管對COVID-19天生免疫。3月下旬,投資銀行Jefferies的首席財務官,,現(xiàn)年56歲的Peg Broadbent死于新冠病毒,。
在上周的一期“巴倫訪談”節(jié)目中,美國銀行的莫伊尼漢為他堅守辦公室的決定做了解釋,。 “我很好”,,他說?!拔覠o法(在辦公室以外的什么地方)高效地處理大量的電話以及做好其他繁重的事情,。這座大樓里除了像呼叫中心這樣必不可少的員工外,已經(jīng)空了,。首席財務官,、我自己以及其他一些人仍須守在這里?!?/p>
一些觀察人士對這些首席執(zhí)行官的健康表示出擔憂,。蘇德巍上周在Instagram上發(fā)布了一張照片,顯示的是從高盛總部41層拍攝到的海軍醫(yī)療船USNS Comfort抵達紐約城時的情形,。該條的第一位評論者留言說:“你為什么還呆在辦公室,,快回家!”但是另一位留言的人寫道:“很高興看到,,在人們需要領導者的那一刻,,你沒有離開這座城市?!边@句話后面跟著的是三個大大的贊,。(財富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:晨曦
James Gorman, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, was working from the firm's offices until about three weeks ago, when he began experiencing coronavirus symptoms in mid-March. Since then, Gorman has been working from home, where he's also recovered after testing positive for COVID-19, the CEO told employees Thursday.
As the biggest Wall Street institutions have sent most of their employees (including several CEOs) home amid the pandemic, the bank leaders who are still going into the office every day are quite literally few and far between.
But they include two very big names: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, who has been working out of the bank's lower Manhattan headquarters, and Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, who is commuting into the firm's Boston offices.
That's a different approach than the one taken by the CEOs of Citi, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase, who are all currently working from their respective homes.
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan's CEO, for one, has been working out of his home office since last week, after being released from the hospital following emergency heart surgery in March. Charlie Scharf, the CEO of Wells Fargo who normally works from the San Francisco-based bank's New York offices, has been running the bank from his home for the past couple of weeks, according to a spokesperson. And Citi CEO Michael Corbat stopped going into the office March 24, the bank confirmed—as soon as he installed enough additional Internet routers at his home office to ensure he could log on from there, The Wall Street Journal reported. (Government-imposed stay-at-home orders are currently in effect for non-essential employees in the all the areas where the major banks, and their CEOs, are based, including New York, San Francisco, Boston and Charlotte, N.C., where Bank of America is headquartered).
Meanwhile, with New York City at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs is one of just 60 employees working from the bank's New York offices, out of the usual 12,000. Though he generally prefers to take the subway around the city, as Fortune first reported in a profile of Solomon late last year, Solomon is avoiding public transportation as a safety precaution for the time being. Yet he continues to come in to the office, where he is "almost completely alone"—partly because Solomon happens to live nearby, says a person close to the bank. (Solomon's residence in New York's SoHo neighborhood is just slightly over a mile from Goldman HQ.) Besides a few security guards, "he [hardly] sees anybody," other than through a computer screen on video calls, the person adds.
Appearing on CNBC last week, Solomon noted that 98% of Goldman Sachs's employees around the world are currently working remotely. "But there are some people that do have to be in the building to move money and for processes. And so, I have been making my center of operations from here," he said. "There are other people in the building. I feel like I should be here. And it’s certainly a very, very safe place to operate with so few people in the building.
Indeed, while Solomon, along with Goldman's COO John Waldron and CFO Stephen Scherr, are all working out of the firm's offices, they have implemented social distancing protocols: Only Solomon is working from the 41st floor, where the executives all typically sit (though technically he stands at his desk). Scherr has been temporarily relocated to the 29th floor, while Waldron is currently posted across the Hudson river, in Goldman's Jersey City building.
Still, on an internal videoconference with all of Goldman Sachs's global employees this week, Solomon strongly encouraged most of them to do as he says, not necessarily as he does—and to continue staying home, according to a person who attended: "This is what I do. You need to do whatever makes you feel safe and comfortable,” he said.
Such "global town halls," as Solomon calls them, are something he has pushed for since becoming the bank's CEO in 2018, but which were not technologically possible for Goldman to pull off as recently as last fall. With the pandemic, the bank's engineering teams worked swiftly to upgrade its teleconferencing capabilities to accommodate its nearly 40,000 employees simultaneously; Goldman has held its first such virtual town halls for the last two weeks in a row.
Of course, working from the office comes with some additional risk of exposure to the coronavirus, and no executive is immune to COVID-19, as Gorman's diagnosis illustrates. In late March, The CFO of investment bank Jefferies, 56-year-old Peg Broadbent, died from the virus.
In an interview with Barron's last week, Bank of America's Moynihan defended his decision to keep working from the office. "I’m fine," he said. "I can’t do the amount of calls and stuff constructively [outside the office]. The building is empty except to essential employees, like the call centers. The CFO and myself and other people still have to be here.”
Some observers have expressed concern for the CEOs' health. When Solomon posted a photo to Instagram last week showing the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort arriving in New York City, taken from his perch on the 41st floor of Goldman HQ, the first commenter replied, “Why are you still in the office David… stay home!” But another follower wrote, “Nice to see that you didn’t leave the city in a moment where people need their leaders,” followed by three thumb’s up emojis.