If you want to work from home, that’s fine - you can work somewhere else. I work from home - on Saturdays and... — Jamie Dimon

If you want to work from home, that’s fine - you can work somewhere else. I work from home - on Saturdays and Sundays.

Author: Jamie Dimon

Insight: There's a joke buried in this that cuts both ways. Dimon's saying remote work is fine as long as you're still putting in real hours—just somewhere different. But what he's really revealing is something about how work bleeds into everything. For him, "working from home" means the weekend, which suggests the weekday itself never really stops being work, wherever you are. This tension is everywhere now. The pandemic made remote work seem like the ultimate freedom—no commute, pajamas all day, flexibility. But Dimon's pointing at something people discover after a few months: the location barely matters if the work itself hasn't changed. You can feel just as trapped working from your kitchen table as from an office cubicle. The real question isn't where you work, but whether you ever actually stop. If work expands to fill your weekends no matter what, did changing your address actually solve anything? The unsettling part is that he might be right about himself. Some people genuinely can't switch off, and no policy change fixes that. But that's also not something we should normalize or celebrate. The quote works as both a defense of old-school work culture and an accidental admission of its costs.