Goldman Sachs orders staff to keep Saturday holy
Source: The Independent
Not many workers require a decree from their boss to keep them out of the office between Friday evening and Sunday morning. But Goldman Sachs has never been an entirely normal workplace.
The “vampire squid” bank – famous for offering graduates huge salaries to compensate for expecting them to work up to 100-hour weeks – has sent a 400-word edict to its Wall Street executives, announcing that the weekend is not for working.
It is, however, a Goldman weekend that bosses are announcing – one that lasts 36 hours, and stops on Sunday mornings. “All analysts and associates are required to be out of the office from 9pm on Friday until 9am on Sunday,” demands the leaked email, which says the new regime will begin this weekend.
... Some City analysts questioned whether the new Goldman rules were a response to the death of Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year-old Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern who died of an epileptic seizure in East London this summer, reportedly after pulling three straight all-nighters.
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Fascinating. 
Some things never go out of style.
