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Oct 28, 2025

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A few days ago, JP Morgan’s new 270 Park Avenue headquarters was in the news. Jamie Dimon has been evangelical about the need to have staff in the office rather than work from home. JPMorganChase Celebrates Grand Opening of New Global Headquarters at 270 Park Avenue

At the same time, Michael Dell tweeted out this photograph of a section of (what looked like) the new JP Morgan trading floor. It was viewed 17 million times relative to the usual 50K for his tweets, so it obviously struck a chord with people. It attracted lots of noise around how cramped it looked and lacking in character compared to the trading floors of the past.

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