Like Goldman, JPMorgan has also been tracking attendance through ID-badge swipes , collected in a dashboard that can churn out reports for managers and other senior leaders.

A spokesman for JPMorgan, which reported having 316,043 workers at the end of September, declined to comment on Bloomberg's report that it may soon revert to a five-days-a-week schedule for everyone. He said that roughly 70% of the bank's employees were already back in the office five days a week, while everyone else was back three or four days a week.

Citigroup

Citi's Jane Fraser is one of the few Wall Street CEOs who has not participated in the work-from-home bashing. She's embraced a hybrid work policy that allows most employees to work three days from the office and two days at home, depending on the job. Bank branch employees, for example, are still required to go in five days a week.

Fraser has also characterized working from home as a privilege, not a right. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2023, she said the bank was calling workers with productivity issues back to their desks .

"We do measure productivity very carefully," she said, according to Bloomberg. "You can see how productive someone is or isn't, and if they're not being productive we bring them back to the office, or back to the site, and we give them the coaching they need until they bring the productivity back up again."

A spokeswoman for the bank said Citi was "committed to our hybrid work model." She said most employees still worked on a hybrid schedule, or at least three days in the office and up to two days remotely.

Bank of America

Bank of America's policy has morphed over time. In early 2022, it encouraged employees to work from the office more often but left room for flexibility at a manager's discretion. By May of that year, investment-banking employees at all levels were being ordered to return to the office four or five days a week .

Since 2022, Bank of America has required employees who are client-facing, like bankers and traders, to be in the office or meeting with clients five days a week. Everyone else must be in the office three days a week. A BofA spokesman confirmed that the policy established in 2022 remained in place.

Early last year, Bank of America issued "letters of education" to employees who violated the bank's return-to-office policies. "Failure to follow the workplace excellence expectations applicable to your role within two weeks of the date of this notification may result in further disciplinary action," one of these letters said.

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley's new CEO, Ted Pick, hasn't commented on the company's remote-work policy since taking the role last January. His predecessor, James Gorman, however, was a big proponent of working from the office, telling Bloomberg in 2023 that working from home was "not a choice."

"They don't get to choose their compensation, they don't get to choose their promotion, they don't get to choose to stay home five days a week," Gorman said in an interview in Davos.

That said, Morgan Stanley has allowed for some remote work, depending on the job. "At Morgan Stanley, we're kind of business unit by business unit," Gorman said. "It's three or four days in the office."

BlackRock

BlackRock's employees have been making use of its new Hudson Yards headquarters in New York City.

The world's largest asset manager required its employees to work in the office four days a week starting in September 2023, with the option to work from home one day a week.

Citadel

Citadel's Griffin has said he believes that teams work better and faster when they're in the same room. His $66 billion hedge fund and his market maker, Citadel Securities, have been in the office full time since June 2021.

"We make so much money because our competition plays in their pajamas — and that's just been a home run for us," Griffin told the Goldman partner Raj Mahajan in an interview for the bank's Talks at GS series in June 2023.

Blackstone

Blackstone employees have been back in the office five days a week since June 2021.

A source told BI in 2021 that to make staffers more comfortable with the return to office, Blackstone spent $20 million on COVID-19 safety and precautions including covering cab fares for employees' commutes.

Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, has kept to a flexible schedule. Since September 2021 the fund has required staff to be in the office at least two days a week.

Its website says managers and department heads can require additional days in the office. It adds that on days employees are in, the firm focuses on taking "advantage of our shared location."

Millennium

Izzy Englander's Millennium experimented with a hybrid working arrangement in 2021. At that time, the firm required its employees to work in the office at least three days a week .

Since then, a person familiar with the firm said, most employees have been in the office five days a week.

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