Goldman requires on-site workers and clients be vaccinated

Goldman requires on-site workers and clients be vaccinated

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Goldman Sachs will require proof of vaccination from all staff and clients entering the bank’s offices, as vaccine mandates proliferate across the US public and private sectors after the BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 jab received full regulatory approval.

The company said the requirement would apply to any individual coming to its offices from September 7, and that any employees who were not fully vaccinated would be expected to work from home. 

From the same date Goldman will also include fully vaccinated staff in its mandatory weekly Covid-19 testing programme, which currently applies to unvaccinated or partially vaccinated staff. It will also require masks to be worn in its buildings’ common areas from Wednesday, whether or not people are vaccinated.

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase were among the most aggressive Wall Street companies in urging staff to return to the office. They made working from the office at least part-time compulsory for most employees earlier this summer. Morgan Stanley told employees and clients in July that they could not enter its New York offices without being vaccinated.

Goldman’s decision to mandate the vaccine came a day after a Food and Drug Administration announcement