jamie dimon: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon fires back at employees’ work from home petition, says ‘not making fun of Zoom but…’

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has doubled down on pushing workers back into the office despite a recent petition from staff demanding hybrid working. Earlier this year, a group of employees launched a petition calling on CEO Jamie Dimon to retain the hybrid work model that the bank has used for years. But Dimon renewed his opposition to work from home, dismissing employee’s concerns about the bank’s strict five-day return-to-office.

The chief executive said Tuesday that working in person helps junior bankers learn on the job. “I’m not making fun of Zoom, but younger people are being left behind,” he said. “If you look back at your careers, you learned a little bit from the apprentice system. You were with other people who took you on a sales call or told you how to handle a mistake or something like that. It doesn’t happen when you’re in a basement on Zoom.”

He was speaking at the Future Investment Initiative alongside Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon and BlackRock’s Larry Fink. Wall Street has shifted back to office times of old—in-person five days a week and Jamie Dimon has instituted a strict return to office mandate, saying it’s all critical to the careers of Gen Z.
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Jamie Dimon on work from home

Dimon’s comments came about a week after an internal petition with 2,000 signatures calling for hybrid working was sent to his desk. It was launched earlier in the year after JPMorgan told its more than 300,000 employees in January that it was ending remote work.

Dimon addressed the effort back in February, saying: “I don’t care how many people sign that f—ing petition.” He went on to say that employees who don’t want to show up at the office every day can find a new job.

“I’ve had it with this stuff,” Dimon said at the time. “I’ve been working seven days a goddamn week since COVID, and I come in, and — where is everybody else?” Dimon later apologized for using expletives, saying he should “never curse, ever,” but he stood by his sentiment about remote work. Dimon took home $39 million in total compensation in 2024.The petition drafted by Dimon’s employees says the company’s mandate to end hybrid work “is a great leap backward: It hurts employees, customers, shareholders, and the firm’s reputation.” Workers complained about inadequate desk space, spotty Wi-Fi, and increased childcare and commuting costs during the March rollout, according to a report in Fortune.ALSO READ: ‘Vance announces divorce, marries Charlie Kirk’s widow by end of 2026’: NYT author’s chilling prediction amid hug row goes viral

JP Morgan defends work in person despite pushback

In a Stanford Graduate School of Business interview, Dimon characterised remote work supporters as “people in the middle who complain a lot about it.” He contrasted them with frontline workers who never had remote options during the pandemic.

Earlier this month, Dimon also opened JPMorgan’s new 60-story, $3 billion Manhattan headquarters, which will serve as home base for more than 10,000 employees. When the company announced its return-to-office plan, many workers expressed their frustration on internal channels until the company disabled comments. Employees complained the new policy would put a strain on their finances, particularly around child care and commuting costs. Others said it would disrupt their work-life balance, and some even called for unionizing after the announcement was made.

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