--- title: "Bankers Are Installing Screens at Home to Keep Wall Street Running" description: "Banks across the globe, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Barclays, are sending thousands of staff home to help keep their business going while the coronavirus outbreak is taking its toll, the Financial Times reports. Some are even helping workers install big screens at their homes to turn them into remote trading floors.  " date: "2020-03-04" modified: "2020-03-04" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/bankers-screens-home-keep-wall-street-running" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "banks" - "coronavirus" - "covid-19" - "virus" --- # Bankers Are Installing Screens at Home to Keep Wall Street Running ![Banks across the globe are sending thousands of their staff home to help keep their business going while the coronavirus outbreak is taking its toll.]() *\Image: Image via Pxfuel\* Some of the world's largest multinational financial institutions — including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Barclays — are sending thousands of staff home to help keep their business going while the coronavirus outbreak takes its toll, the [*Financial Times* reports](). Some are even helping workers install large screens at their homes to turn them into remote trading floors. JPMorgan is taking the opportunity to test out an approach that involves sending thousands of employees home as part of its resiliency testing, code-named "Project Kennedy," [according to *Bloomberg*](). And Barclays decided to split its trading floor over multiple sites across London with a portion working remotely. The news comes after global markets took a substantial hit as a result of uncertainty surrounding the virus outbreak, with experts warning it could even [cause a recession](). Prevention isn't nearly as simple as sending bankers to work from home. Regulatory hurdles have to be overcome. For instance, Europe has requirements about how communications via the phone and online are monitored, according to the *Financial Times*. It's not just the banks, either, with large swathes of the technology sector also sending staff home. Twitter "[strongly encouraged]()" employees from across the globe to work from home "if they're able to." Amazon [made the same call](). Buckle up, because it could be a sign of things to come. ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()