Wall Street adjusts to working at home: Lost screen real estate, Citi's new 'world headquarters'

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CNBC spoke with several Wall Street players to see how they are adjusting to the new reality of working from home.

Both the CME Group and the New York Stock Exchange closed their trading floors last month.

A man cleans up on the trading floor, following traders testing positive for Coronavirus disease , at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020.The coronavirus pandemic has roiled capital markets, but it has also led to something that was once unthinkable on Wall Street: working from home for a prolonged period of time.

Fromhertz and his girlfriend set up shop at her parents' house in Ohio, which is currently empty while they spend winter and part of the spring in Florida. There, instead of a trading desk with five monitors, he has one "really big" monitor and two laptops, limiting his "screen real estate." "If we were working from home in Hoboken, we'd be talking over each other while we were on our calls, which would not be good," he said.

 

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Howl from home Wolves 'with the rest of us'. Or break as 'Life ist Wülf'.

What impact will corona have on Real Estate, especially Office space rentals? NY office space may be surplus as more people work from home or part-time office.

I said it before and I will say it again. Worker's like him also put their lives out there to clean up after u ppl. If you sneeze in a Kleenex take it out yourselves. If u spit in your trash can they have to take that bag out. Think abt them also and clean up your own mess.

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