[HN Gopher] At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employee...
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At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at home
Author : davidw
Score : 5 points
Date : 2020-09-14 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| ghaff wrote:
| Dimon kind of throws them under the bus, doesn't he:
|
| "Work output by younger employees was particularly affected on
| Mondays and Fridays, according to findings discussed by Chief
| Executive Office Jamie Dimon in a private meeting with Keefe,
| Bruyette & Woods analysts. That, along with worries that remote
| work is no substitute for organic interaction, are part of why
| the biggest U.S. bank is urging more workers to return to offices
| over the coming weeks."
|
| Of course, if one were cynical, you might suspect he wanted
| return to office anyway and young workers are a convenient and
| safe group to blame.
| zepto wrote:
| Do you think he's just lying about it?
|
| When I was a younger worker I certainly did slack off on Friday
| and Monday when I could get away with it.
|
| I've worked in more than one office where people started
| drinking on Friday afternoon _in the office_ when the CEO was
| out of town.
| nsriv wrote:
| You're right in that most office workers take Monday to get
| going and wind down on Friday, but Jamie Dimon is the guy
| that lied in Congressional testimony multiple times, so
| that's equally likely.
| ghaff wrote:
| >Do you think he's just lying about it?
|
| Not really. But the general impression from the piece is that
| he has various less-quantified reasons for wanting more
| people back to the office and slacker younger workers does
| seem like a convenient excuse -- especially if there's _some_
| truth to it (which is entirely possible). FWIW, if I were in
| my twenties at this time, I 'm not sure I would trust myself
| to keep plugging away.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| I'm in my 30s and I personally have a hard time being
| productive when the world is literally and metaphorically
| on fire and plague stricken. Being in an office would not
| change this.
| dv_dt wrote:
| Being in an office would make me more distracted imho.
| Between wondering if the ventilation is giving me covid
| from carless co-workers, to being more separate from
| family and home should another disaster crop up.
| joezydeco wrote:
| What kind of work are these junior employees doing that is this
| highly measurable?
| ghaff wrote:
| JPMC is a huge institution so it's hard to answer. Certainly
| there are many roles in trading, working with clients,
| support, etc. that will have pretty quantified metrics
| associated with them.
| dv_dt wrote:
| How does anyone take quantified metrics seriously if trying
| to compare pre-covid market bubble data to in-covid
| recession/market bubble. The environments are completely
| different.
| [deleted]
| el_don_almighty wrote:
| The old guys want us back in the office as well. The party is
| over. It's a shame. I am getting so much more done at home. I
| can't believe I have to go back to that hell hole. There's no way
| I can replicate my home office setup. I think I am going to glue
| my headphones to my head claim it as an ADA accommodation...
| lwigo wrote:
| Am I supposed to feel bad for JPMC?
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