Is Hybrid Work Holding Firm Over In-Office for Finance?
Posted: 22nd Jun 2026
Jamie Dimon gives voice to a wider sense of executive frustration.
In audio that surfaced in early 2025, the JPMorgan Chase CEO can be heard taking aim at the vacant desks around him. "I come in, and where is everybody else?" he says, months before mandating a full five-day return to the office.
His remarks were the most prominent in a growing, two-year refrain.
Home Depot, Target, Microsoft, 3M and Intel all rolled out return-to-office directives with considerable publicity.
But zooming out from the headlines, the so-called return appears limited.
Across the US, the proportion of work carried out remotely has levelled off rather than declined – meaning the policies may be firm, but the data tells a different story.
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