Mayor Adams wants the Big Apple’s financial powerhouses to get back to business — period.
The newly minted mayor took aim at major investment firms in the city on Monday for ordering their employees to work from home for the time being as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations continue to swell in New York.
Adams, who was sworn in Saturday, said the resumption of remote work policies at big banks like JPMorgan Chase ripples through the economy and hurts low-wage workers.
“We must get open, and let me tell you why: That accountant from a bank that sits in an office — it’s not only him, it feeds our financial ecosystem. He goes to the cleaners and get his suits clean, he goes out to the restaurants, he brings in a business traveler, which is 70% of our hotel occupancy,” he said in an appearance on Bloomberg TV.
“You can’t run New York City from home. We must have everyone participate in our financial ecosystem to allow the low-skill, unskilled and people who are doing hourly employees to actually be part of our eco-system. They can’t remotely do their job.”
Adams’ adamant push for office work came on the heels of Goldman Sachs becoming the latest major financial firm to tell its city-based employees to work from home for the first couple of weeks of January to try to blunt the recent surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the extremely contagious omicron variant.
JPMorgan Chase, CitiBank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley have already instituted similar policies.
The remote work precautions come as New York continues to see its COVID-19 curve trend in the wrong direction.
According to data from the state Health Department, 23.17% of all tests conducted across New York in the 24-hour period ending Monday morning came back positive, with 29,246 infections recorded in the city alone. Hospitalizations are ticking up at an alarming rate as well, and 103 New Yorkers died from COVID-19 statewide in the same reporting window, the highest daily death toll in months, the data showed.
Despite the pandemic resurgence, Adams said the city can’t return to business shutdowns, arguing that widespread availability of coronavirus vaccines should allow New Yorkers to “live with COVID.”
“I need my companies back open and operating,” he said. “You can’t run a city like New York on 30% occupancy in buildings. We need to get back to business and open our city.”
On the topic of vaccines, Adams said he’s considering mandating booster shots — which have proven highly effective in protecting people against severe COVID-19 symptoms — for the municipal workforce. He said he’ll have an announcement on the matter “around April.”
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NYC is and has a Garbage problem who would want to come back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3qOeyTZ_jI&ab_channel=LouisRossmann
So clean the city up!
Okay, Adams, fine. You get rid of the friggin' skels that have popped up like mushrooms over the last few years and we'll think about coming back.
“I need my companies back open and operating,” he said.
They're not his companies. Sounds like someone has a bit of a Napoleon Complex.
Employees in banks don't have any responsibility to help low income workers and the mayor has no right to ask private businesses what to do.
How about some decent interest rates for the people paying for all these loans, and mortgages? A bank on near every block in NYC
This putting $100,000 into a 1 year CD and only getting $50 interest after 1 year is fucking is bullshit and going on since Obama!!
F_ck IRAs and Wall Street too !!
Its sucks you cant even invest in extra houses because unless you take section 8 you not guaranteed to se rent $$$. Tenants no longer wanna to pay rent and the dam city wont remove such deadbeats until giving them 2 years of last chances. You cant even turn the heat and water off, the deadbeats have more rights and protections then the homeowners.
The recent mix of Black & Colored progressive government has been a disaster for those who worked and paid taxes decades to earn what they have.
"Capitalism, 2 family buildings...Oh no no no we cant have any of that in private hands, were working on it" "you should sell your house if your racist or don't want renters" -Social worker at the housing court.
-Joe
Nobody is listening to Mussolini Adams tough guy look and act. If he doesn’t change his tune he will exceed any destruction Deblasio the asshole has done. I think Adams needs a few more boosters.
Guys been in office 4 days and you assholes are shitting on him already. You morons deserve the rat infested shit hole city you live in. Good luck being miserable.
Anonymous Adriatic Hillbilly said...
Okay, Adams, fine. You get rid of the friggin' skels that have popped up like mushrooms over the last few years and we'll think about coming back.
Spot on!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
“I need my companies back open and operating,” he said.
They're not his companies. Sounds like someone has a bit of a Napoleon Complex.
No, sounds like your run of the mill Marxist
Don't worry peeps, things will change when you vote in the next Dem.
Good for him. The Rona Panic is finally unravelling as people catch on that (1) Covid is not dangerous and never was outside of a few high-risk groups (2) the Moronic variant is literally just a cold and (3) vaccines don't work and are dangerous, especially to the young.
Also, masks and social distancing do NOTHING AT ALL, and we've known that all along, but simply chose to enforce pointless rules to test the level of conformity people would go along with.
"Adams said he’s considering mandating booster shots — which have proven highly effective in protecting people against severe COVID-19 symptoms"
They have done no such thing. And remember how we were told vaccines would be 100% effective and mean you couldn't get or spread Covid? Oh yeah, that was a lie and they knew it.
Eric trying to get up in their Grill !
Wow, this guy is like Trump and "Florida Man' all wrapped up in one package. You clowns should be happy to have one of your own (but maybe the wrong color for your liking) in city hall.
Wow, this guy is like Trump and "Florida Man' all wrapped up in one package
We should be so lucky. Hey, life in Florida is totally normal and has been for a long time, while you're triple masking and running for every heart-attack shot they'll let you have. And things in Florida are just fine, too. Amazing how that works.
Thousands of New Yorkers have left the Fascist State of Herr Hochul for the breezy, balmy Florida breezes of freedom. Not many people arriving in NYC, other than the usual loads of the Chinese elite class, Chinese slave class, and the usual mish-mash of dusky global grifters that love the easy pickins in NYC.
>>>Guys been in office 4 days and you assholes are shitting on him already<<<<
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That's because the educated judge by actions and what we seen so far this guys a complete leftist progressive woke asshole. Hell, he cant even speak properly sounds like Snoop Dog 3rd grade ghetto trash gibberish..much like every one of his appointees. Appointees seated based on color and not merit.
D.O.T, Police & MTA boss's, three of the most important positions in the city with zero qualification experience to fix the 3 biggest train wrecks in the country (crime, 2 wheel cyclist maniacs and falling apart subways) for example.
This mayor should have known a FBI trained hostage negotiator is nothing more then a bullshit artist babysitter. Not a boots on the ground cop, detective, commander, nor captain or chief. ADOT boss more concerned with bike lane partitions on bridges?
That alone says it all, now add the other miserable no-sense decisions.
Adams is proving to be another split tonged liberal asshole
The woke & sheeple voters really screwed the pooch this time. People will be wishing for deBlasio and Cuomo back
wrong color for your liking
Not sure what that means. You mean his blood is not red? Is green like yours shape shifter?
You oughta charge rent for Trump he is living in your head free.
Get your boosters now! the first two Vaxx shots worked so well.
I think they should be going back to work. Its not mandated for people to get tested or vaccinated from the flu at their jobs so this covid testing and vaccines shouldn't be mandated either. We will probably never eradicate it so may as well learn to live with it just like we did with the common cold and the flu.
What, take the subway to work and get killed?
@"You oughta charge rent for Trump he is living in your head free."
"oughta" ???? Is this Ebonics ?
Only 3 more variants until the midterms people.
Just keep voting democrat you dumbasses!
Get your boosters now! the first two Vaxx shots worked so well.
Look pal, is called the operating system of life for a reason.
Needs multiple shots to get you ready for IoB (Internet of Bodies).
Once 8 shots are in you, the nano circuitry, networking is complete and you are ready.
Your smart car, fridge, TV, stove, appliances are ready.
Let the fun begin!
@Guy's beein in office for four days ...
He selected a useless, feckless admittedly alcoholic fraud like Eric Ulrich (a/k/a 'Derelict Dullrich') to be appointed as Adams' senior adviser (you heard right, SENIOR, and please stop laughing)——the same incompetent, derelict, public servant impostor who left his hometown of Ozone Park looking worse than a Third World slum-camp, centered around a foreign gambling mill (Genting's Malaysian based Racino at Aqueduct).
Talk about patronage jobs for life. Failure in the ADDAMS Family (of grand larcenous thieves and openly public criminals) is now rewarded on every spectrum of corruption, graft and intense incompetence, and this latest appointment (that strains all credibility) from a domestic terrorist like Ulrich tells everyone still surviving in NYC everything that they need to know about cronyism, mental laziness, rewarded failure and ultimately, mental illness.
Also, there are no telephone numbers or switchboard operators at City Hall when one attempts to call 212/788-3000 (all incoming calls are immediately dispatched to a nonfunctioning '311' system). In the old, quasi-accountable days, there would be a switchboard operator, for example, to say: ❝Good morning, the Mayor's Office, how may I direct your call?❞ Nope! None of that REAL, voice-to-voice accountability, taxpayer slaves, only smaller flaming hoops to jump through only to be further burdened by the worthless 311 system that is a dark, massive, empty hole in space, created by Bloombucks to foster and reinforce more of the same: Delay, Deny——And Hope That You Die, government sanctioned failure.
When I see LIVE and ACCOUNABLE persons answering the telephones at City Hall (and likewise the Executive Chamber in Kitty Hochul's inherited litter box loosely called New York State's Capital), then there will be a modicm of hope that social contract is back in the business of serving the public. And where are all of these Columbia University School of Journalism MBA's on hand in the LAMESTREAM media to hold City HALL and Albany ACCOUNTABLE? ALL CORPORATE OBEDIENT SHILLS WHO ARE PAID OFF reciting their mantra: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.
'If you SEE something——SAY something!' OH Yeah, Queens 'peasants 'n peons': 2022 is gonna be GRRRRREAAAAAT!
❝We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office❞ ——Aesop
@Guy's beein in office for four days ...
He selected a useless, feckless admittedly alcoholic fraud like Eric Ulrich (a/k/a 'Derelict Dullrich') to be appointed as Adams' senior adviser (you heard right, SENIOR, and please stop laughing)——the same incompetent, derelict, public servant impostor who left his hometown of Ozone Park looking worse than a Third World slum-camp, centered around a foreign gambling mill (Genting's Malaysian based Racino at Aqueduct).
Talk about patronage jobs for life. Failure in the ADDAMS Family (of grand larcenous thieves and openly public criminals) is now rewarded on every spectrum of corruption, graft and intense incompetence, and this latest appointment (that strains all credibility) from a domestic terrorist like Ulrich tells everyone still surviving in NYC everything that they need to know about cronyism, mental laziness, rewarded failure and ultimately, mental illness.
Also, there are no telephone numbers or switchboard operators at City Hall when one attempts to call 212/788-3000 (all incoming calls are immediately dispatched to a nonfunctioning '311' system). In the old, quasi-accountable days, there would be a switchboard operator, for example, to say: ❝Good morning, the Mayor's Office, how may I direct your call?❞ Nope! None of that REAL, voice-to-voice accountability, taxpayer slaves, only smaller flaming hoops to jump through only to be further burdened by the worthless 311 system that is a dark, massive, empty hole in space, created by Bloombucks to foster and reinforce more of the same: Delay, Deny——And Hope That You Die, government sanctioned failure.
When I see LIVE and ACCOUNABLE persons answering the telephones at City Hall (and likewise the Executive Chamber in Kitty Hochul's inherited litter box loosely called New York State's Capital), then there will be a modicm of hope that social contract is back in the business of serving the public. And where are all of these Columbia University School of Journalism MBA's on hand in the LAMESTREAM media to hold City HALL and Albany ACCOUNTABLE? ALL CORPORATE OBEDIENT SHILLS WHO ARE PAID OFF reciting their mantra: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.
'If you SEE something——SAY something!' OH Yeah, Queens 'peasants 'n peons': 2022 is gonna be GRRRRREAAAAAT!
❝We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office❞ ——Aesop
@@Guy's beein in office for four days ...
Very true about Ulrich. But you could also say the same for most other TrumpTurds.
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