By the end of October, David, who works at a roughly 2,000-person finance firm in New York, already knew he’d be working during the holiday season this year. Usually at the office, he learned he’d at least get to work remotely between December 26 and January 1—with the way the financial calendar fell, it was inevitable that he couldn’t just disappear for clients (like institutional investors and family offices) during that time. 

He says the schedule doesn’t really bother him.

“I’m not in a trench in the middle of a battlefield here. I’m not laying bricks,” he says.........

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