The CEO of America’s largest bank has once again passionately defended his ironclad stance on remote work, this time in front curious college students.
While speaking at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business last week, Jamie Dimon, 68, said he’s ‘had enough’ of the now-common workplace practice and that it simply ‘doesn’t work’ in his business.
Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase for the last two decades, got onto the controversial topic after a graduate student asked a question regarding his leaked, expletive-loaded remarks from a company town hall about the finance firm’s end of hybrid work.
‘I’ve admittedly listened to the leaked audio clip that was circulating on Twitter about your strong opinions on remote work,’ the student divulged before probing the chairman on his much-disputed stance.
‘I would love to just hear some of your thoughts, or guidance, or advice on how we should think about these topics,’ the student added.
In response, Dimon, whose heated criticisms of remote work have made him a champion of the return-to-office culture shift, claimed the only group of people disgruntled with the move are ‘the people in the middle’ – like corporate office workers.
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