The Covid-19 pandemic forced many people to learn to work from home. In China’s financial center, it is now the opposite challenge: learning to live—round the clock—at the office.
Amid sudden quarantines, staff at banks, trading venues and investment firms take to cots and sleeping bags to ensure business continuity
Barricades, panic buying and empty streets are some scenes from Shanghai as China’s most populous city imposed a new lockdown. Offices and factories – including Tesla’s – were affected by China’s measures against its worst virus outbreak in two years. Photo: Aly Song/Reuters
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