re: As JPMorgan Chase enforces a 5-day RTO, staffers complain about too few desks, spotty Wi-F

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I’ll stick to personal update threads like the other boomers

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Employees should show up and start trashing the building

our HQ just moved to a new office in Manhattan, and they downsized the space (We're two days in the office and 3 days remote). They purposely took a smaller place with fewer desks. If by chance the entire HQ staff shows up on the same day then quite a few have to work in the lunchroom or go find a coffee shop down the street.

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Employees should show up and start trashing the building

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Please do this so you can be fired and then arrested.

Serious question, who enforces such a RTO policy? I already told my boss I ain’t taking morning attendance. I have way more important things to do, like actually go make the company money

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It really makes you wonder what work from homers are doing on their computers all day if they’re so afraid to go to work

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The flip side is, people like me that have been WFH since 1995, typically start their day within minutes after getting up and making coffee and end their day anywhere around and between 6:30pm to 10:00pm, so companies, in many ways, receive an exchange that goes something like, I don't have to deal with the stress and increased risk and cost of driving in traffic, back and forth 10 times a week, purchase lunch everyday , and sit in a soulless cubicle. In exchange, I give the employer about 10-20 additional hours a week, and even more when dealing with either far east or European countries to deal with time differences. Seems fair.

Nothing magic about them, unless you consider Bluetooth to be magic.

They cost me $55 on Amazon.

Link to Amazon

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No one is bootlicking. Companies are allowed to determine where their employees work. Don't like going back to the office? Go find a job where you can WFH or work hybrid.

Or you can just go on TD.com and bitch like mingo

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There is a reason some want to work from home He was the one who thought working for JPMorgan allowed him to know better how Dimon runs the company than Dimon. He has been doing interviews about it with Fortune and making comments on reddit about it.

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Welch laughed about the saga on Reddit the day after, saying: 'I was in the front row, I was the one who asked the question. It was AMAZING.
‘I am satisfied that he was goaded in to dropping F-Bombs on a recorded meeting.’

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Dimon will reduce staff to get rid of him or have higher up’s on his every move. Asking the question was one thing, but continuing on with 3rd parties and bragging about it on Reddit is something else that will have consequences.

Minus some of the language there was some specific reasoning about this location from Dimon that helped make his decision. The manager of the guy in picture moved to Florida, and this guy has other members of team living all over. It seems like many at this location are clueless about how lackadaisical people have gotten.

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The abuse that took place is extraordinary. You may be a great manager, but… I’m going to give you examples of how bad it got. OK?' Dimon said.

However, he said he came to the realization that hybrid working wasn't working for the rest of the company, and was causing huge inefficiencies.

'Now, your manager moved to Florida. We never made a promise that it would be forever. That’s their problem, not mine,' he said.

'So people said, ‘We moved, we didn’t move’ - we always told people that we were going to be a work-from-the-office type of company.

'And so we allowed three days and two days. But here are the problems, OK? And they are substantial…the young generation is being damaged by this.

'They may or may not be in your particular staff, but they are being left behind. They’re being left behind socially, ideas, meeting people.

'In fact, my guess is most of you live in communities a hell of a lot less diverse than this room.'

Dimon also railed against the 'rudeness' of staff fiddling with their phones and not paying attention during Zoom calls, which he said 'slows down efficiency, creativity'.

'When I found out that people were doing that - you don’t do that in my goddamn meetings. If you’re going to meet with me, you’ve got my attention, you’ve got my focus, I don’t bring my goddamn phone, I’m not sending texts to people,' he said.

'It simply doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for creativity, it slows down decision-making.

'And don’t give me this s**t that work-from-home-Friday works. I call a lot of people on Fridays, and there’s not a goddamn person you can get a hold of.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14410341/jpmorgan-townhall-jamie-dimon-work-home-audio.html

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Not sure what’s worse. A grown man that works from home or a grown man that gets to work after 6:00am.

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Clearly the worst is a man who works sitting on his arse inside all day.

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It's solely to justify their overpriced commercial real estate.

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This is exactly it.