“Friday’s dead,” says the glum counter guy at the street-level convenience store in Goldman Sachs’ lower Manhattan headquarters building. “Not many people on Fridays. I think nobody’s here,” he says, pointing upward to the 43 stories of Goldman offices above him.
The man behind the cash register isn’t the only one noticing that Goldman’s ranks are thinner on Fridays. CEO David Solomon has the data. “Certainly Monday through Thursday, we’re operating pretty close to the way we were operating before the pandemic,” he told a Wall Street Journal conference in December. “Fridays are a little different.”
