{"id":3397,"date":"2021-03-04T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/en-GB\/ideas\/?p=3397&preview=true&preview_id=3397"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:07:04","slug":"how-four-finance-companies-use-wework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/en-GB\/ideas\/workspace-solutions\/case-studies\/how-four-finance-companies-use-wework","title":{"rendered":"How four finance companies use WeWork"},"content":{"rendered":"

IN THIS STORY<\/div>An insurance company finds a home during a time of uncertainty<\/a>Temporary workspace helps this company to decentralise<\/a>An investment bank gets a collaboration hub<\/a>A mobile payment company de-densifies and doubles its footprint <\/a><\/div>\n

One year ago, when COVID-19 forced widespread lockdowns, financial services companies<\/a> across the world closed their offices and sent employees home to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, their return to the office has been sporadic<\/a>. In September 2020, many large banks urged workers to return to the office, while other institutions such as hedge funds, whose workers generally had the tools they needed to work from home, did not. Asset managers and private-equity companies took a middle road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, as COVID-19 cases once again surged in the US and around the world, several companies that brought workers back to the office in September had to send many of them home again due to a spike in new virus cases. At the same time, several major banks delayed their autumn 2020 target dates<\/a> for a full-scale return to the workplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some employees say they can be just as productive working from home, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that employee productivity depends largely on the employee’s role<\/a>. For example, financial advisors have long been mobile, so their productivity hasn’t taken as big a hit as that of stock market traders, who need access to more tools, such as trading terminals, that are available only in the office.<\/p>\n\n\n