The start of this year may seem uncomfortably similar to the beginning of 2021, with surging coronavirus case counts, event cancellations and companies revising their return-to-office plans.
economy open despite record cases — but rates of lower hospitalizations and deaths — it raises new questions for businesses preparing for a third year of the pandemic.
Government policies are shifting.
Some big firms have been buying tests in bulk to give to employees, but smaller companies may not have similar capacity.
The shift in policy came after the Wall Street firm announced new booster and testing requirements last week, but, unlike many of its peers, did not encourage staff to work from home.
Goldman called most workers back to the office in June, and its chief executive, David M.
New York State recorded over 85,000 new coronavirus cases on the last day of 2021, the highest one-day total in the state since the pandemic began.
As workers trickle back, the financial industry, which employs 332,100 people in New York City, may also have to ramp up its vaccine efforts.
10, staff coming into the office would be tested for the virus twice a week at on-site testing centers, increasing from a current requirement of once a week.
JPMorgan Chase gave staff flexibility to work from home in the first two weeks of the year, but wants them to return to in-office schedules no later than Feb.
“Government-issued vaccine mandates may likely make it difficult or impossible for us to continue to employ unvaccinated employees, so getting the vaccine is very important,” the memo said.
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The jury of eight men and four women has spent over 43 hours so far deliberating whether Ms. Holmes, 37, is guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud.
23, when they asked to listen to audio recordings in which Ms. Holmes allegedly misled investors about Theranos’s business relationships.
Ramesh Balwani, known as Sunny, was Theranos’s president and chief operating officer from 2009 through 2016 and was in a romantic relationship with Holmes.
Many high-profile criminal trials — including those of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan Jr., who killed Ahmaud Arbery; Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three men in Kenosha, Wis., in 2020; and Kim Potter, the police officer who killed Daunte Wright — have come and gone since Ms. Holmes’s trial began in September.
It is not unusual for deliberations in white-collar trials to be lengthy, especially in complex fraud cases in which defendants are charged with multiple counts that span multiple years.
In Ms. Holmes’s case, the jury must sift through 14 weeks of testimony and over 900 pieces of evidence as they decide whether Ms. Holmes intentionally deceived investors, patients and advertisers in the pursuit of investments and business for her blood testing start-up.
But The Wall Street Journal revealed in 2015 that Theranos’s blood-testing devices could perform only a dozen tests, contrary to Ms. Holmes’s claims of over 1,000 to investors, business partners and the public.
For many, the saga represents the worst excesses of Silicon Valley’s start-up culture, where founders regularly stretch the truth in search of fortune and fame.
She said she believed her own claims and pointed fingers at her senior employees, including Ramesh Balwani, her ex-boyfriend and Theranos’s former chief operating officer.
Evergrande said in a filing that its shares were halted pending an announcement “containing inside information,” without giving more details.
Although Evergrande has yet to solve its cash squeeze, it pledged last week to finish building 39,000 apartments before the end of 2021.
On Friday, Evergrande appeared to revise its plan to repay investors in its wealth management unit, promising to make monthly payments of about $1,260 to each investor for three months.
At one point, as many as 80 percent of Evergrande employees were asked to put money into wealth management products to help fund its operations.
So far, the jury has submitted two questions: It asked whether it could take jury instructions home , and it asked to listen to audio exhibits of Ms. Holmes talking with investors.
JOLTS: Economists will get another snapshot of how many Americans are quitting their jobs when the Labor Department reports on the number of job openings in November.
Economists expect that 400,000 jobs were gained and that employers raised wages across the country as they looked to retain and hire workers.
And that was at a time when many people were off for the holiday season.
Most of the nation’s largest school districts have decided to forge ahead and remain open, at least for the time being, citing the toll that remote learning has taken on students’ mental health and academic success.
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has left companies across industries — from meatpacking to retail — with a thinning work force, especially after months of record high resignations.
The spiking case counts have also flummoxed the dozens of companies that sent their employees to work from home in March 2020, as Covid was first sweeping the country.
Twitter said that Ms. Greene had a fifth “strike,” which meant that her account will not be restored.
People who violate that policy are subject to escalating punishments known as strikes and could face a permanent ban if they repeatedly share misinformation about the virus.
The landmark proposal would be part of common set of definitions of what constitutes a “sustainable investment” in the European Union.