Goldman employees were not exactly clicking their heels as they knocked off work for the day yesterday.

Many Goldman employees say the offering, though it will make them wealthier, will not immediately change their lives.

Goldman employees now become partners at a younger age and retire earlier than in the past.

Most Goldman employees probably have a sense of how lucky they are compared to those outside 85 Broad Street.

Every full-time Goldman employee will get at least some stock bonus, they said.

Goldman employees who were interviewed in recent days said that the findings were being taken seriously.

More-pedigreed Goldman employees knew people to call for business; he did not.

Clearly, it was tough for Goldman employees to rub along on an average pay package of $498,000 (£306,760) in 2009.

Even the lowliest Goldman employees benefit from the firm's ties with its former colleagues.

In one example, a reporter mentioned that a Goldman employee had not logged onto their terminal recently.