Bankers Stay Home as South Africa Inc. Prepares Return to Work
- Bank staff won’t be going back to office when lockdown eases
- President has pledged to relax restrictions by end of month
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Investec Chief Executive Officer Fani Titi saw a sign of things to come when he dropped by the bank’s headquarters last week.
The usually buzzing escalators that criss-cross the four-story building in Sandton, South Africa’s business capital, were eerily silent. He was one of only 440 employees in an office block normally occupied by 10 times that number.