纽约（CNN）数十名杰富瑞员工的
Covid-19 检测呈阳性，这迫使这家华尔街公司要求员工在家工作，几乎停止所有旅行并取消社交活动。
“我们现在的首要任务是最好地保护您和您的家人，”杰富瑞 (JEF) 首席执行官 Rich Handler 和总裁 Brian Friedman 周三在给员工的备忘录中写道。
该投行表示，自 12 月初以来，它经历了近 40 起新的 Covid 病例。仅周二就出现了 10 起病例，导致近 50 名员工被隔离，直到检测结果呈阴性。
杰富瑞总部位于纽约，但在世界各地设有近三打办事处，包括伦敦和香港。该公司没有具体说明感染发生的地点。一位知情人士告诉美国有线电视新闻网，病例总数是指全球数字。
杰弗里斯说，“只有极少数例外”，大多数病例不需要住院治疗。该银行指出，95% 的员工接种了疫苗，进入其办公室的人员 100% 接种了疫苗。
由于大量阳性病例，杰富瑞表示将鼓励员工在 12 月剩余时间远程工作。
高管们写道：“如果可以，我们会要求您在家工作。”
此外，杰富瑞表示，它将在所有办公室重新实施戴口罩的规定，并要求任何想要进入任何办公室或参加活动的人在 1 月 31 日之前管理他们的助推器，除非他们还没有资格这样做。
高管们说：“从今天起，我们将取消所有社交活动和娱乐活动，直到 1 月 3 日。” “届时我们将重新评估，希望一切都会好起来。所有聚会、大客户功能和团体活动现在都暂停。此外，除非获得预先批准，否则除了最重要的商务旅行之外的所有旅行都应该停止。我们非常失望我们需要迈出这一步，但这是尽可能保证每个人安全的谨慎途径。”
就在一天前，摩根大通公布了乐观的前景，预测 2022 年将是“全球全面复苏、全球大流行结束并恢复到 Covid-19 爆发之前的正常状况”的一年。
但是，杰富瑞的新健康协议凸显了企业在 Covid 病例不断增加以及对 Omicron 新变体的担忧之际，他们试图让员工亲自工作时所面临的困难。本周早些时候，出于对新冠病毒的担忧，福特推迟了让 30,000 名员工返回办公室的时间。
杰富瑞高管写道：“我们坚信，我们比开始更接近这场混乱的结束。” “感谢你们所有人，我们取得了令人难以置信的成功。”
Wall Street firm Jefferies returns to remote work and cancels social events after dozens of Covid cases
New York (CNN)Dozens of Jefferies employees have tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the Wall Street firm to ask staff to work from home, stop virtually all travel and cancel social events.
"Our priority now is to best protect every one of you and your families," Jefferies (JEF) CEO Rich Handler and president Brian Friedman wrote in a memo to employees Wednesday.
The investment bank said that since the start of December, it has experienced nearly 40 new Covid cases. Tuesday alone saw 10 cases, causing nearly 50 employees to quarantine until they test negative.
Jefferies is based in New York, but it has nearly three dozen offices around the world, including in London and Hong Kong. The company did not specify where the infections occurred. A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the case total refers to a global figure.
Jefferies said that "with only a very few exceptions," most of the cases have not required hospitalization. The bank pointed out that 95% of all employees are vaccinated and 100% of those who enter its offices are vaccinated.
As a result of the flurry of positive cases, Jefferies said employees will be encouraged to work remotely for the rest of December.
"When you can, we ask that you work from home," the executives wrote.
Additionally, Jefferies said it will reimpose a mask mandate in all offices and require anyone who wants to enter any office or attend an event to have their booster administered by January 31, unless they are not yet eligible to do so.
"Effective today, we are canceling all social events and entertainment until January 3rd," the executives said. "We will reassess then, and hopefully all will be better. All parties, big client functions and group events are now on pause. Additionally, all but the most essential business travel should stop, unless it is pre-approved. We are highly disappointed we need to take this step, but it is the prudent path forward to keep everyone as safe as possible."
Just a day ago, JPMorgan Chase put out an optimistic outlook predicting that 2022 will be a year of a "full global recovery, an end of the global pandemic and a return to normal conditions we had prior to the Covid-19 outbreak."
But the new health protocols at Jefferies underscore the difficulty businesses face as they try to get employees to work in person at a time of rising Covid cases and concerns about the new Omicron variant. Earlier this week, Ford delayed its return to the office for 30,000 workers because of Covid concerns.
"We strongly believe we are much closer to the end of this mess than the beginning," the Jefferies executives wrote. "And thanks to all of you, we have achieved incredible success."
