"We do our work inside Morgan Stanley offices," CEO insists

The head of investment bank Morgan Stanley is taking a hardline approach to bringing U.S.-based employees back to the office, saying he expects nearly all of the firm's workers to return to the company's headquarters by Labor Day. 

CEO James Gorman cited rising vaccination rates across the U.S. and within the 60,000-employee firm to insist that working shoulder-to-shoulder on the bank's trading floors and in its conference rooms will be safe.  "If you can go to a restaurant in New York City, you can come into the office. And we want you in the office," he said at the bank's U.S. Financials, Payments & CRE Conference this week.