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  • Goldman Sachs will reportedly require staff to recieve a COVID-19 booster and submit more frequent tests.
  • Employees were previously required to be fully vaccinated, test once per week, and wear masks.
  • The bank has been a vocal proponent of the office, and the CEO previously called remote work an "aberration."

Goldman Sachs will require its staff to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot and test more frequently for the virus as it continues with its return-to-office strategy, Bloomberg reported on Monday. 

Employees must test twice a week for COVID-19 beginning on January 10, and must get their booster shots by February 1 if they are eligible, the report said.

The company did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Employees were previously required to be fully vaccinated, submit weekly test results, and wear masks in order to enter US offices, according to an August memo. That memo also required clients to be vaccinated to do business at the company's offices.

CEO David Solomon previously called remote work an "aberration" that had an "enormous impact" on the bank's operations, and the firm officially reopened US offices in June. Even so, sources told Insider in July that getting bankers to return on a full-time basis was proving difficult

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