Jamie Dimon, office-work champion, vows his anti-remote culture ‘would crush you.’ The economy’s top talent begs to differ

Everyone remembers the looseness that defined work during the COVID pandemic. While it brought its share of stress, particularly the constant concern about infection, remote work also rebalanced work-life integration. It became easy to fold laundry, run errands, or start dinner in between tasks, all while sipping iced coffee with a cat curled in your lap.

But that lifestyle has fallen out of fashion for some business leaders, or at least for JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. In a recent interview on CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil, the billionaire said leaders who maintain remote work policies are falling behind, and could be failing their youngest workers.

“You could build a company one way and I could build another company one way,” he said. “But I’ll tell you one thing: We would crush you.”

JPMorgan reinstated a five-day in-person work policy in the beginning of 2025. Many other firms have instituted similar policies since the end of the COVID pandemic, including Amazon and Read Entire Article