Posted on 09/22/2024 2:27:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has called for federal employees in Washington, DC, to return to their offices, highlighting the ongoing debate over remote work policies.
What Happened: Speaking at The Atlantic Festival, Dimon expressed his frustration with the number of empty buildings in the capital, according to Business Insider on Friday.
“By the way, I’d also make Washington, DC, go back to work. I can’t believe, when I come down here, the empty buildings. The people who work for you not going to the office,” he stated,
“That bothers me,” he added. Dimon emphasized that he does not allow such flexibility at JPMorgan.
Why It Matters: Dimon is not alone in his stance. Earlier this week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that Amazon employees would return to the office five days a week, reverting to pre-pandemic norms.
JPMorgan’s policy mandates managing directors to be in the office full-time, while other employees must work in person at least three days a week. Last year, the Biden Administration also pushed federal employees to return to in-person work.
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They probably didn’t do much work in the office either.
So we are paying several times for the same hot mess.
Those customers don’t have the money to eat out every day now. They will have even less if they have to commute into work.
> “The people who work for you not going to the office,” … <
I don’t care much about that. If a federal employee is firing on all cylinders, I don’t care if he works from home or from a treehouse in the Amazon rainforest.
But if his productivity is suffering by staying at home, either report to the office or be terminated.
The trick, of course, is determining how productive a federal employee actually is.
At least they showed up to the office to collect their paycheck.
Now they may be playing golf or doing yoga while they're "working at home".
How do we know?
Except bureaucrats “working” from home probably cost him as they do all taxpayers.
Why? Why does it bother you so much and why should anybody else care?
I can’t wait until Trump appoints Musk as an efficiency director. He’ll fire them all.
Put the newcomers in the buildings. Wall Street supports Harris anyway.
Gee, I wonder if he’s concerned with grocery prices. You know like trailer swift is. 😴😴😴😴😴
We pay taxes so we deserve to know what's going on with federal employees in Washington, D.C.
Are we paying them to goof off on the clock?
I have an even better idea. Any company that demands I return to the office is terminated for cause and will never have my services again. In fact, that's been my policy for a few years now. The problem for the banks is what they want in terms of education and experience is not possessed by very many people and I happen to have those. Meet my conditions, or I will do projects for your competitors instead of your bank. The free market works both ways.
Jamie’s wife loves herself some Kamala
I was driving through the farm and pasture land in East Texas recently. Passed a couple of massive new subdivisions of McMansions in the middle of nowhere. Well outside the commuting range for Dallas (Hour and a half or so at rush hour absent weather or wrecks). I have no idea where those folks would work other than from home.
Bingo
In this age of social media there is still actual benefits to face to face interactions between live human beings. It is also to the employees benefit to have face to face interactions with fellow workers and upper management. But everyone has to make those decisions for themselves.
I say this as someone who was a geographically based remote employee. I worked in an office but was located in a different state than my work group.
The problem will sort itself out over time. Many of those work at home people may just become “don’t work here anymores”.
You may think it is a selfish position. I think tax dollars are being wasted by having high paid government employees sitting at home in their pajamas not answering the phone and not on their computers.
For federal employees, OK. Then again, I think we ought to cull at least 75-80% of them anyway and radically shrink the size of government. For the private sector, companies are free to demand their employees return to the office 5 days a week if they want.....and potential employees are free to refuse to work for companies that have that policy. The free market works both ways.
80% of the workforce was censoring conservatives.
I have a better idea - make most of the federal employees move out of DC and into America. Limit each agency to no more than 100 employees in the Richmond to Baltimore corridor.
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