JP Morgan Chase has told staff moving into its new headquarters in New York that they must share their biometric data to access the multibillion-dollar building.
The investment bank had previously planned for the registering of biometric data by employees at its new Manhattan skyscraper to be voluntary.
However, employees of the US’s biggest bank who have started work at the headquarters since August have received emails saying that biometric access was “required”, according to communications seen by the Financial Times.
Our servers are in a data center and not in the office building. We work remote most of the time and are only in office for important meetings and other things where it’s just easier to work together when sitting on the same table. If you don’t work with confidential data like HR or top management where you have physical things nobody else should see, you don’t have a personal desk because there are more people working than workplaces.
So the office is just “another place to work”. Wifi and LAN are just for internet, you can’t access internal services without VPN. Makes it way easier to manage instead of having to different routes to maintain.