How Deutsche Bank is using contact tracing to bring its 90,000 employees safely back to work

• Deutsche Bank is using a contact-tracing app to address health and pandemic concerns. 
• Employees will be able to complete health screenings before they arrive at work. 
• Other companies including PwC, Salesforce, and Google have been unveiling similar technologies. 

Deutsche Bank has a new COVID-19 contact tracing app that conducts digital health-screenings and identifies people who may need to quarantine, HR Dive first reported.

Kevin Ambruso, the investment bank’s director of chief security office, told HR Dive that the purpose of the app is to give employees the option to complete their health screenings at home, on their way to work, or prior to their arrival in the office. Ambruso said more than 90% of Deutsche Bank’s staff use this technology on their cell phones.

The 90,000-person bank’s contact-tracing app allows it to track the potential spread of the virus by tracking high-risk or symptom-showing employees’ whereabouts through their key card swipes, he added.