JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doubled down on the financial giant’s newly initiated five-day return to office policy amid a raucous town hall meeting.
Chase employees reportedly sought advice from the trade union, Communications Workers of America, on how they could assemble a labor union – an unheard-of move in the U.S. financial sector, CWA campaign leader Nick Wiener told Reuters.
In the memo seen in January, employees were told they would receive at least 30 days’ notice before being expected to return in person full-time and that they should seek manager approval if they required more time to prepare for the change.
According to Reuters, Dimon weighed in on the fact that employees had a “choice [on] whether to work at JPMorgan” and pleaded with staff not to “be mad at him”, citing it was a free country.
Back when the decision was made, roughly a month ago, Dimon and his counterparts, declared the reasoning, according to an internal memo also seen by Reuters at the time.
