Jamie Dimon shares why he never reads text messages at work

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently spoke about his phone habits at work, including never reading text messages and turning off his phone notifications.

“I don’t have notifications,” the CFO said. CNN’s Erin Burnett In an interview. “If you text me during the day, I probably won’t read it.”

“The only notifications I get are from my kids. That’s it. When they text me, I get that,” he added.

The 69-year-old revealed that he does not carry his phone with him all the time and prioritizes deep focus at work.

“When I walk around the building and go to meetings, I don’t carry it with me. It’s in my office,” he said. “When I go to my meetings, I do pre-reading and focus 100% on us, what you’re talking about, why you’re talking about it, rather than being distracted and thinking about other things.”

Damon has previously voiced complaints about poor meeting etiquette, telling Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in October that using phones in meetings is “disrespectful” and “wastes time.”

“If you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you’re reading your email or getting notifications, I’m going to ask you to turn the damn thing off,” he said at the time.

He explained that meetings should have a purpose and that checking emails and getting distracted are red flags.

Earlier this year, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase got into a major uproar Leaked audio recordingto JPMorgan employees about working from home and using the phone in meetings after employees complained about having to return to the office five days a week.

Damon asked them to resign, saying he was concerned about the “harm” working from home was doing to younger recruits.

“Don’t give me this f—ing that working from home on Fridays works… I call a lot of people on Fridays, and there’s no fucking person you can call… I’ve been through that kind of thing,” he said in the recording.

“They’re here, they’re there, Zoom [Gen Z]And the Zoomers don’t show up…that’s not how you run a great company.”

He even attacked the managers on the call, saying they were abusing the privilege of working from home to slack off. When managers were on Zoom, they were looking at their inbox and texting without paying attention, Damon said. “And if you don’t think that slows down efficiency and creativity and creates rudeness, it does,” he added.

Anastasia Dedyukhina, a digital well-being expert, said earlier CNBC Make it Checking your smartphone frequently reduces the quality of your conversations with friends and colleagues. Survey 2023 by ratings.org It found that Americans check their phones an average of 144 times a day.

She explained that even just having a phone nearby can be very distracting. Also, using the phone can leave a bad impression on managers and colleagues, and is considered poor business etiquette.

“I’ll also keep thinking about it because for our minds, the smartphone and the sound of the smartphone are very attractive stimuli. So when I hear my phone ring and I send a notification, to my mind, it’s like you’re calling my name.” Dedyukhina He said.

That’s why Alison Wood Brooks, a former Harvard assistant professor, participated CNBC Make it It’s important to focus in meetings because it makes you appear smarter and more likable. This includes asking follow-up questions, paraphrasing, and repeating back to them what the other person said.