new york banks are considering letting some employees keep working from home indefinitely and staggering the shifts of those who do come into the officehotels are trying to figure out a way to let arriving guests go straight to their rooms without signing in at the reception desknew york the financial cultural and tourism capital of the united states is gingerly preparing to get back to business after more than a month of coronavirus shutdownwhen will we return to work is a question on many peoples minds these days said jane fraser the number two official at citigroup she has assembled a committee of veteran bankers to come up with conservative scenarios for a return to something resembling normalcymost citigroup employees currently work from home including ceo michael corbatlike its rivals citi has set up marketwatching computer terminals for traders at home although some traders have been sent to especially disinfected facilities to do their jobsthe bank anticipates that some employees will be reluctant to return to work with no treatment or vaccine yet available for covid19for those employees we will want to do our best to provide them the flexibility to continue working remotely said fraserfinancial services represents nearly 10 percent of private sector jobs in the city which is home of the new york stock exchange nasdaq and headquarter offices of several large banks finance also represents 29 percent of the citys gdpat jpmorgan chase one of the citys largest employers the return to work will be modeled somewhat after how new yorks economy was restarted after the 1918 spanish flu epidemicemployees will return to work onsite in a phased approach over a period of time read an internal memo seen by afpthis won praise from patrick foye chairman and ceo of the metropolitan transportation association who said that staggered office shifts will reduce congestion and chances of contagion on the city subway trains and buseshaving people come in three days a week as opposed to five as well as having them stay at least six feet apart would be helpful measures foye told journalists in a recent video conferencenew york is the most densely populated us city with 11000 inhabitants per square kilometerthe epicenter of the us coronavirus pandemic new york has been through crises before including the september 11 2001 terror attacks and the great recession of 2008but those challenges are minor compared to the task of reopening the big apple this timemeasures taken to curb the spread of the virus will probably destroy 475000 jobs through march 2021 and leave new york with a 97 billion dollar budget deficit according to the independent budget officenew york governor andrew cuomo has said the city will gradually return to business area by area but gave no date or conditionsthe citys 25000 bars restaurants and night clubs are wondering if they will be allowed to operate fullsteam in a world now shaped by social distancingif you have to open up 50 percent reduced occupancy we