Key Takeaways JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon minimizes cell phone use during work hours, only allowing notifications from his children.
He keeps his phone in his office or tucked away during meetings or appointments.
Dimon has previously said that he considers checking devices during meetings to be “disrespectful.”
Jamie Dimon rarely has his cell phone with him throughout the workday. Instead, the JPMorgan Chase CEO, who leads the biggest U.S. bank, has people call his office to reach him.
“If you need me and it’s important, call my office, and they’ll come get me,” Dimon, 69, said in an interview earlier this week with CNN.
Dimon explained that he keeps his phone in his office and doesn’t have it in front of him when he goes to meetings or appointments. He turns his notifications off, except for texts from his three adult daughters, Julia, Laura and Kara.
“If you send me a text during the day, I probably do not read it,” Dimon said.
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Not having his phone on hand means that Dimon is fully present and “100% focused” during meetings, as opposed to being distracted and “thinking about other things,” he explained.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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