This is the first week of a return to the JPMorgan Chase office, which obliges thousands of people to return after five days a week and so far the correction is less than smooth. The tension is high among the bank employees who are addicted to noisy jobs, sporadic Wi-Fi and sick colleagues who cough and sneeze.
One of the biggest problems faced by JPMorgan Chase employees is the lack of desks. The largest bank in the country has a desk booking system, but for some sites it does not work, or policy is “first, come, first serve”, according to seven JPM employees who have spoken with FortuneS This means that many employees, when they arrive at their workplace, will find all the full desks, forcing them to hunt a place to do their jobs. None of the workers whose identities are known Fortune And which are distributed throughout the United States, they wanted to speak for a recording of fear of revenge.
“There is definitely not enough desks for everyone, so people need to hope for others to take PTO that day to get a place,” said an JPM employee who works on the east coast. The team of this worker had to kick employees in another section after not receiving enough desks, they said.
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is a vowel supporter of RTO, claiming that office work helps to strengthen teamwork, mentoring and innovation. But the lack of desks makes it difficult for some JPMorgan Chase groups to work together.
“We saw that our places were already occupied by others. We were forced to have to sit from each other, “said a second JPM employee, also on the east coast.
The lack of desks forced many JPM employees to arrive at work early, sometimes up to an hour, so that they could hit the spot. Others have engaged in the placement of personal belongings, according to the second source, while some employees in the area of San Francisco Bay placed “paper tents”, marked by the name of their team at the desks, to try “unofficially book an area,” added a third party. Sometimes these efforts are not working and employees still have to look for places to sit.
Demon’s term of five days a week was partly imposed on improving the team spirit, but ironically, it seems that in some cases he had the opposite effect .. Not to get a place or have a desk cut by other workers, it has led to increased tension, but so far there are no fighting, people said. “You can just tell the people who got there, they felt a little unstable,” said a fourth employee to the south.
In January, the JPMorgan Chase left Firestorm when the bank informs its 317,233 employees that all employees would have to return to the office five days a week. Approximately 40% of JPMorgan Chase employees worked on a hybrid schedule, where they were in the office three days a week, as the Covid-19 pandemia of 2020. Many banks staff returned full-time on March 3, while others were scheduled for RTO on March 10. But some sites, like on March 3, like on March 3, Chase Chase Chase on March 10th. defined. “