Nicolas Welch, who has worked for JPMorgan Chase since 2017, wasn’t expecting trouble when he questioned CEO Jamie Dimon at a town hall about the bank’s return to office mandate.
Like many at JPMorgan, Welch is upset that all of the bank’s 300,000-plus employees would be required to work in the office full-time, five days a week starting early next month.
But the saga that unfolded over the next 24 hours shows how both employees and managers are getting caught in a confusing whirlwind of who can challenge a leader on RTO, and what the consequences are.
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