key takeaways
- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says checking email during meetings is “disrespectful.”
- Dimon said he focuses “100%” when attending meetings and always reads pre-meeting materials.
- Earlier this year, when Dimon was speaking during a virtual meeting, he criticized remote workers for vetting information.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is advocating for better meeting etiquette in the workplace — and that means no more checking email or Slack messages.
“None of them are nodding, none of them are reading my mail,” said Dimon, 69. Luck‘S Most Powerful Women Summit On Tuesday. “If you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you’re reading your email or getting notifications, I ask you to turn the thing off. It’s offensive.”
Dimon said he focuses “100%” when attending meetings, always coming prepared in advance.
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Focus is something that cannot be compromised for Dimon, who said that if he cannot give his full attention to his work, it will be time to “move on.”
Earlier this year, during a leaked town hall in February, Dimon criticized remote workers for checking information while speaking during a virtual meeting.
In an interview After a month at Stanford Graduate School of Business, he remembered another incident when people’s attention was on their screens—not on him.
“I was on Zoom yesterday… people are reading their mail and getting notifications,” Dimon said in the Stanford interview. “When I was talking, there were 12 people in the room and four people on the screen, and all four people on the screen were on their phones. And you think you’re concentrating and learning?”
JPMorgan brought all employees back to the office full-time in March, and ended its hybrid work policy entirely in-person.
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Dimon previously commented on the meetings in his 2024 annual letter to shareholders released in April. In the letter, he said CEOs should “stop holding meetings” because they are “an example of the very thing that slows us down.”
If meetings need to be held, he wrote, they should start and end on time, and a designated person should lead them. Dimon also said that meetings should start with a clear objective and end with a list of actionable follow-up items. He stressed the importance of using straightforward language and avoiding unnecessary jargon. He also rejected the idea of ”meeting after meeting”, saying that any executive who has something to say should voice it openly rather than speaking in private later.
“This is not acceptable,” Dimon wrote in a shareholder letter. “Don’t sweat it…be transparent with your coworkers.”
JP Morgan is America’s largest bank $3.9 trillion In assets and market capitalization over $818 billion At the time of writing. Dimon has been the CEO of the bank. since 2006,
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key takeaways
- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says checking email during meetings is “disrespectful.”
- Dimon said he focuses “100%” when attending meetings and always reads pre-meeting materials.
- Earlier this year, when Dimon was speaking during a virtual meeting, he criticized remote workers for vetting information.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is advocating for better meeting etiquette in the workplace — and that means no more checking email or Slack messages.
“None of them are nodding, none of them are reading my mail,” said Dimon, 69. Luck‘S Most Powerful Women Summit On Tuesday. “If you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you’re reading your email or getting notifications, I ask you to turn the thing off. It’s offensive.”
Dimon said he focuses “100%” when attending meetings, always coming prepared in advance.
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