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Jamie Dimon dismisses return-to-work oppo: ‘I don’t care how many people sign that f—ing petition’

February 14, 2025 | | Print Article

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has made it clear how he feels about employees whining about his new five-day return-to-office policy.

During a company town hall meeting Wednesday, he slammed his employees for drawing up an online petition urging him to reconsider his policy requiring employees to spend at least five days a week in the office.

“Don’t waste time on it,” he said of the petition, according to Reuters. “I don’t care how many people sign that f–king petition.”

“Instead, Dimon demanded more efficiency and stressed employees have a choice whether to work at JPMorgan,” Reuters notes. “The CEO told them not to be mad at him, and said it was a free country.”

Listen to more of what he said below:

JPMorgan announced the new work-at-the-office policy in January and said it’d take effect in March. In response, roughly 1,500 or so employees have signed the aforementioned petition. While that seems like a lot, keep in mind the company employs over 300,000 people.

Moreover, over 60 percent of JPMorgan employees were by January already working in the office full-time, according to Fox Business.

Opponents of the new work-at-the-office policy nevertheless argue in the petition that it would hurt or even push out “women, caregivers, senior employees, and individuals with disabilities.”

“Many of these are top performers, and many of them only able to join the workforce under hybrid work rules,” the petition reads. “This directly contradicts JPMC’s commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

That the petition contains such leftist language and ideas doesn’t seem like a coincidence. Though in fairness, JPMorgan has itself previously embraced the principles (or lack thereof) of this ideology:

“I’m really against the full RTO [return to office policy] out of empathy for a lot of colleagues whose personal lives will be upended,” one disgruntled, anonymous JPMorgan employee told Fortune magazine.

“A lot of us have arranged our lives and [made] huge life decisions around being able to be remote a couple days a week or 40% of the time,” the anonymous employee added.

But Dimon simply didn’t give a care.

“I’ve had it with this stuff,” he reportedly said during Wednesday’s town hall. “I’ve been working seven days a goddamn week since COVID, and I come in, and—where is everybody else?”

Fair question …

Dimon also reportedly went off on the company’s prior focus on so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI):

During the town hall, Dimon further suggested that working remotely makes it too easy for employees to skip out on their work.

“Don’t give me this s–t that work-from-home Friday works,” he said. “I call a lot of people on Fridays, and there’s not a goddamn person you can get a hold of.”

The petition claims otherwise.

“Controlled A/B testing confirms that hybrid workers [who work partly at home and partly at the office] maintain the same high productivity levels as their full-time in-office counterparts, debunking the notion that remote work equates to lower performance,”  the petition reads.

“In addition to sustaining strong output, hybrid work reduces costs, enhances morale, and strengthens employee retention. JPMC itself has effectively onboarded and trained a full cohort of new employees under the hybrid model for the past five years without issue,” it continues.

As for the public, it appears they’ve decided to side with Dimon.

Look:

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