Jamie Dimon shares why he never reads text messages at work: 'I don't have notifications'

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon precocious opened up astir his telephone habits astatine work, including ne'er speechmaking substance messages and having his telephone notifications turned off.

"I don't person notifications," the concern brag told CNN's Erin Burnett successful an interview. "If you sent maine a substance during the day, I astir apt bash not work it."

He added: "The lone notifications I get is from my kids. That's it. When they substance me, I get that."

The 69-year-old revealed that helium doesn't transportation his telephone astir with him each the clip and prioritizes heavy absorption astatine work.

"When I'm walking astir the gathering and going to meetings, I don't person it connected me. It's successful my office," helium said. "When I spell to my meetings, I did the pre-reads and I'm 100% focused connected us, what you're talking about, wherefore you're talking astir it, arsenic opposed to I'm distracted and I'm reasoning astir different things."

Dimon has antecedently aired his gripes astir mediocre gathering etiquette and said astatine Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit successful October that utilizing phones successful meetings is "disrespectful" and "wastes time."

"If you person an iPad successful beforehand of maine and it looks similar you're speechmaking your email oregon getting notifications, I'll archer you to adjacent the damn thing," he said astatine the time.

He explained that meetings should person a intent and that checking emails and getting distracted are reddish flags.

Dimon has remained captious of immoderate of the newest shifts successful the workplake brought astir by the youngest procreation astatine work: Gen Z. Dimon has adhered to much accepted ways of working, often expecting his employees to bash the same.

Earlier this year, JPMorgan Chase's CEO went connected a rant successful a leaked audio recording, to JPMorgan employees astir moving from location and telephone usage successful meetings aft workers complained astir having to instrumentality to the bureau 5 days a week.

Dimon told them to discontinue saying helium was acrophobic astir the "damage" that enactment from location was doing to younger recruits.

"Don't springiness maine this s--- that work-from-home Friday works ... I telephone a batch of radical connected Fridays, and there's not a goddamn idiosyncratic you tin get a clasp of ... I've had it with this benignant of stuff," helium said successful the recording.

"They're here, they're there, the Zooms [Gen Z], and the zoomers don't amusement up ... That's not however you tally a large company."

He adjacent took a changeable astatine managers successful the telephone saying they were abusing the privilege of moving from location to slack off. When connected Zoom, managers were looking astatine their mail, sending texts and not paying attention, Dimon said. "And if you don't deliberation that slows down efficiency, creativity, creates rudeness – it does," helium added.

Anastasia Dedyukhina, a integer wellbeing expert, antecedently told CNBC Make It that often checking your smartphone reduces the prime of your conversations with friends and colleagues. A 2023 survey by Reviews.org recovered that Americans cheque their phones an mean of 144 times a day.

She explained that adjacent conscionable a having a telephone adjacent you tin beryllium highly distracting. Using a telephone could besides permission a atrocious content connected managers and colleagues and is atrocious moving etiquette.

"I would besides support reasoning astir it due to the fact that for our minds, a smartphone and the dependable of a smartphone is simply a highly charismatic stimuli. So erstwhile I perceive my telephone ringing and marque a notification, for my mind, it's the aforesaid arsenic if you were calling maine by my name," Dedyukhina said.

That's wherefore Harvard University subordinate professor Alison Wood Brooks formerly shared with CNBC Make It that it's important to absorption successful meetings arsenic it makes you look smarter and much likable. This includes asking travel up questions and paraphrasing and repeating what the different idiosyncratic said backmost to them.