JPMorgan’s Erdoes Lauds ‘Thinking Time’ for At-Home Staff

  • Workers in asset, wealth management went remote in March
  • Industry finds it ‘quite productive to work from home’
Mary ErdoesPhotographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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For all the hand-wringing about the sustainability of extended remote work, one group is finding the time to be particularly productive: asset-management employees.

That’s according to Mary Erdoes, who runs asset and wealth management at JPMorgan Chase & Co. The biggest U.S. bank has been inviting more workers back to its offices over the past few months, but staffers in Erdoes’s industry will probably be among the last to return, she said at a virtual conference Thursday.