In May, a junior banker at Bank of America died unexpectedly.

His name was Leo Luchenes the third.

Before he died, Luchenes had been working long hours on a big acquisition,

sometimes more than a hundred hours a week according to his former colleagues.

After he died a lot of people with similar entry-level jobs took to social media sharing their concerns about working conditions on Wall Street.

When I started as an investment banking analyst, I worked 100 hours every week and was constantly sleep deprived.

If you get the job, you were then worked to the bone like you wouldn't believe.

Sometimes I had calls like with clients at like 1 a.m. depending on their time zone and then I would continue working until 3, 4 a.m.

It is time for the industry to make some serious changes.

We can no longer normalize these excessive working hours.

After Lukenes's death, Bank of America said, quote, our focus is on doing whatever we can to support the family and our team.

The bank has rules in place to prevent overworking and has said it takes disciplinary action when violations of its rules occur.

Our colleague Alexander Saeedi started looking into what happened to Luke Kennes.

You know, it dawned on me when we were starting to report about what happened to Leo that what

we were looking at could be a potential failure in the systems meant to protect young bankers.

There was a lot of concern and I think anger from young people who felt

scared that this could happen to them.

So Alex began investigating.

He spoke to over three dozen current and former Bank of America employees

who worked at offices all over the world in places like New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston,

Tokyo, London, and San Francisco.

We spoke to people doing very different things across the investment bank,

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