One consequence of working from home is that mistakes are made. People miss messages; spinning plates fall to the ground; the falcon cannot hear the falconer; a New Yorker journalist broadcasts his genitals to everyone else on a Zoom call. […]
Tag: COVID-19
The 20-something traders who made millions during the pandemic
If you’re spending years studying at college to compete with 60 other people for a graduate job in banking or professional services, maybe you’re doing something wrong. In Essex, a county just outside of London, is a collection of nine traders – some […]
Goldman Sachs told most London staff to WFH from Thursday
Following yesterday’s announcement of a new U.K. lockdown from November 5th to December 2nd, Richard Gnodde, CEO of Goldman Sachs International, has emailed London staff saying that only those designated as, “in-office essential” should come into the London office from Thursday. Gnodde says […]
Bankers at home left to wonder who will be fired next
Slowly but very surely people in banking are returning to offices. At Goldman Sachs, for example, CEO David Solomon said this week that the firm now has 30% of its people back in London and 30% rotating in and out of its headquarters in New […]
Resetting education: lessons from Sesame Street on helping a generation at risk
TV show Sesame Street is teaching children around the world about COVID. Sesame Workshop has used digital technology to educate children at the world’s biggest refugee camp. The pandemic has disrupted the education of 1.6 billion children, the UN says. […]
Chinese investment banks are hiring in Hong Kong during Covid. But there’s a catch
If you’re a job seeker in Hong Kong and you want to work for one of the world’s top-10 investment banks by market capitalisation, you could try Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, which respectively rank in first and second place. […]
All Your Horny Little Coronavirus Questions, Answered
As COVID-19, or coronavirus, continues to spread through communities around the United States, the CDC has been proactive in issuing all sorts of guidance for not getting sick. The organization has addressed a lot of concerns—travel, pets, pregnancy, personal protective equipment—thus far, […]
Senior traders are returning to the office. This is why
It’s August, and in any normal year that would mean one thing: analysts. – This is the time of year when the graduate trainees arrive in investment banks. Needless to say, 2020 is a little different. The analysts have turned up, but […]
“Entry level tech jobs have vanished thanks to COVID”
I’m a masters student at one of the top universities in the U.K. and am studying computer science. This year, it seems that entry level jobs in technology have almost disappeared. I’m one of the lucky ones: I completed an […]
Inside the spaces where male bankers network alone
For bankers in London and New York, COVID-19 has changed everything when it comes to after-work networking and client entertainment. – An expensed night out looks far less appealing when it risks a life-changing virus. This could be a positive thing: those who’ve played […]