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One of the biggest problems facing JPMorgan Chase staffers, though, is the lack of desks. The nation’s largest bank has a desk reservation system, but for some sites it doesn’t work, or the policy is “first come, first serve,”

“Come to work, but we offloaded office space during covid, so you may not have a place to sit. Don’t like it, get here by 7am, but remember, no leaving early, we’re back in the office full time.”

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Dimon’s five-day-a-week mandate was imposed in part to improve team spirit, but, ironically, it appears to have had the opposite effect in some cases.. Not getting a seat, or having a desk scooped up by other workers, has led to increased tension but so far no fights, people said. “You could just tell folks that got there later were feeling a bit off-kilter,” a fourth employee in the South said.

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Some employees expect the bank to adhere strictly to attendance policies, even for hybrid workers, and use the RTO mandate to fire people without paying severance. A JPMorgan Chase spokesman denied that the bank is using the office directive to manage attrition. “This is absolutely false,” said the spokesman, who referred Fortune to comments made by Jeremy Barnum, JPMorgan Chase’s CFO, in January during the bank’s fourth-quarter press conference call. JPMorgan is “very much not hoping for attrition as a function of return to the office,” Barnum said

This is such horseshite. I cannot stand when people lie to your face and think you’re an idiot.

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While some workers are describing the lack of desks as troublesome, other workers point to noise as the biggest issue with coming back to the office. Some employees said they work in an open office space without walls while others say they’re in cubicles. All agree that there’s lots of socializing, people talking on the phone, and, because meeting rooms are scarce, employees often holding Zoom calls at their desks. “People don’t know how loud they are on Zooms and, of course, if you have a dozen people Zooming then you’re going to hear all of that,” a third employee located in the Midwest said.

IF you get a seat, you get to hear one side of 8 different conversations going on at once. Very conducive to concentration.

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Then there’s the Wi-Fi, which some bank employees described as sporadic or just not working. Earlier this week, a group of employees on the East Coast were unable to connect to Wi-Fi for several hours and were told to work from home until the technical issues were resolved, they said. “That was an entire day wasted,” the second employee said.

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JP Morgan was on a hybrid 3-2 schedule before Jamie Dimond made everyone come back 5 days a week. Hybrid is, of course, a sensible arrangement which allows companies to cut costs, employees to minimize commutes, all while still having the critical FaceTime for team building and training. Dimond and old frickers like him want to have their cake and eat it too. They don’t provide the necessary environment for in office work and want you to still be available after hours at all times, but don’t want to provide any accommodations for the employees. Not good!