JPMorgan Chase today stated that all American employees must wear masks when occupying indoor space, which is the opposite of the announcement in May that employees who were vaccinated do not need to wear masks in the office.
Several companies across the United States have announced plans to return to the office Apple, Google, Wells Fargo and others stated that vaccinated employees will resume work in the office in October. Apple joined JPMorgan Chase’s strategy, saying that employees said employees would wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status.
This CDC It was stated on July 27 that wearing a mask indoors can “maximize protection” of the Delta variant, which helps prevent the spread of the disease to others. According to the agency, Delta variants account for at least 93% of all newly sequenced cases in the United States
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JPMorgan Chase stated in an initial memo shared with Reuters: “Since the CDC has stated that more than 80% of the counties in the United States have a large or high community transmission rate, we will temporarily follow this guideline nationwide.”
Reuters reported that the company instructed only fully vaccinated people to participate in indoor activities with more than 25 people. It added that unvaccinated employees must complete rapid COVID-19 tests at least twice a week.
The largest financial institution on Wall Street seems to be ready to let employees return to the office. Reuters reported that the bank mentioned that it has no intention to change the office that it has rotated since the beginning of July. Like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs seem to have started to follow their plans.
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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (David Solomon) said: “We focus on gradually reuniting our employees under safe conditions, and now we can start the next step of our return to the office strategy.”, President John Waugh DeLong and Chief Financial Officer Stephen Schell wrote in the memo.
These actions came at a time of uncertainty about the vaccine’s ability to prevent Delta variants. After the outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the CDC reported 469 COVID-19 cases, 74% of which were fully vaccinated individuals. Among the infected people, 5 out of 469 were hospitalized and 4 of them were fully vaccinated. There are no reports of deaths.
President Biden has been working to increase the vaccination rate. The government announced new measures to promote vaccines, including requiring federal employees who have not been vaccinated to undergo regular testing, mandatory vaccinations for military personnel, reimbursement of business expenses for employees who take leave of vaccinations, opening temporary vaccination clinics in schools, and encouraging the state to provide $100 Rewards.
