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The Dr. Phil Podcast

The Remote Work Revolt: Dr. Phil Breaks It Down | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Education, Society & Culture

4.313.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Phil tackles the rising tension between corporate mandates and remote workers pushing back. In this episode, he examines the recent case of JPMorgan Chase employees protesting a return-to-office policy, sparking a broader debate over workplace culture, entitlement, and modern labor expectations. Is remote work a right—or just a pandemic-era privilege?

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0:00.0

Something else that I found really interesting had to do with J.P. Morgan Chase.

0:04.7

I'm going to give you what I think is the real story.

0:10.1

I completely applaud your right to not to want to go to the office every day, but you're not going to tell JP Morgan what to do.

0:16.0

The largest bank in the United States, they are requiring all of their remote workers to return to the office.

0:22.6

I have to say, as an employer, that makes sense to me. When you manage $3.58 trillion in total

0:27.6

assets with over 300,000 employees, you don't necessarily want them to work at home in their

0:35.6

pajamas. You do what's best for the business.

0:39.3

Except some in today's workforce only want to do what's best for themselves,

0:45.3

like the Chase employees who signed a petition against the five-day in-office policy.

0:50.3

Can you believe it?

0:51.3

You're expected to show up for work like you were hired to do. This wasn't a bait and switch.

0:57.4

I don't know the facts of this down to each individual employee, but I don't think these people were hired to work at home.

1:08.1

I think they were hired to work for the bank in the office,

1:12.6

and then when COVID hit, they said, okay, we'll adjust and you can work at home for now.

1:18.6

What am I going to do? I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to do a little bit of this, a little bit of that,

1:24.6

I'm going to stay up all day, I'm going to sleep up all night.

1:28.4

But then CEO, Jamie Diamond said, no, it's time to come back to work. And he did reply

1:35.2

in rather colorful and passionate language. I did emote there. I emote, you know, people know me

1:41.6

and I don't really care about that. I don't worry about it. Some characterized as a rant at a company town hall. Now, by the way, it's a company holding a town

1:50.8

hall. That tells me that he doesn't not care about his employees. He's holding a town hall. Companies

1:57.9

don't have to hold town halls, but he did. And he said with regard to the

2:02.3

petition, don't waste time on it. I don't care how many people sign that effing petition.

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