"Zoom is a great tool, so I'm not making fun of Zoom," Dimon said. "But younger people are being left behind. Their social lives are deteriorating. They don't get ahead."
"When we meet on the Hollywood Square...You don't have that constant follow-up. People say, 'Well, pick it up next week when we get there.'"
"If you look back at your careers, you learned a little bit from apprenticeships. You were with other people who took unit sales call or told you how to handle a mistake or something like that. It doesn't happen when you're in your basement and Zoom ... I think it's very important to have a social life."
"Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas,"
Jamie Dimon encourages JPMorgan employees to return to the office, arguing that remote work undermines younger employees' learning, social lives, and career progression. Zoom is acknowledged as a useful tool but insufficient for apprenticeship-style learning and informal mentorship. Virtual meetings reduce management collaboration and diminish follow-up and accountability for ongoing projects. In-person spontaneous interactions foster idea generation, skill transfer, and ongoing coaching. Steve Jobs believed creativity sprang from random, face-to-face encounters and designed offices at Apple and Pixar to prioritize central hubs that enable such spontaneous collaboration.
Read at Benzinga
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