Two of America's biggest banks return to remote work to start 2022
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Omicron is messing with back-to-the-office plans for both JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup.
Citing the spike in Covid-19 cases, both big banks told US employees on Thursday that they can start 2022 by working remotely.
In a memo obtained by CNN, Citi (C) asked its US employees to work from home for the first few weeks of the new year if they are able to do so. The bank pointed to the "rise in Covid-19 cases across the US due to the omicron variant."
Senate Democrats have confirmed some of President Joe Biden’s picks for the federal bench this week in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for a total GOP blockade of judicial nominations – in part because several Republicans involved with the Trump transition process have been missing votes.
Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality and people who have served on his US Secret Service detail to run the agency that has been plagued by its failure to preempt two alleged assassination attempts on Trump this summer, sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking tell CNN.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as a way to help reduce the federal workforce through attrition.