{"id":41579,"date":"2025-08-03T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/41579\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:48:08","slug":"jpmorgan-employees-gripe-about-paying-for-fitness-center-at-new-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/41579\/","title":{"rendered":"JPMorgan employees gripe about paying for fitness center at new HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon promised employees lots of goodies at its new 270 Park Avenue headquarters to ease their\u00a0pain at having to return to the office five days a week.<\/p>\n<p>Amenities at\u00a0the\u00a0$3 billion skyscraper, opening\u00a0this month, include a food hall with 19 cafes, displays of art from former bank chairman David Rockefeller\u2019s\u00a0collection,\u00a0and even an Irish pub.<\/p>\n<p>But some spoiled staffers crank that a much-touted, \u201ccutting-edge Fitness Center\u201d won\u2019t come free, but require a monthly\u00a0membership fee, as an internal memo informed them this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36726219\" width=\"295\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/270-park-avenue-room-14-16038153.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of JP Morgan Chase's new headquarters at 270 Park Avenue.\" class=\"wp-image-36726219\" style=\"width:295px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:0.5;display:block\"  \/>A rendering of JPMorgan Chase\u2019s new Park Avenue headquarters, which is due to open this month. = DBOX \/ Foster + Partners<\/p>\n<p>The memo didn\u2019t say how much it would cost, but \u201cmore information will be available in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s truly a perk to be gifted the opportunity to spend money,\u201d one complainant using the handle \u00a0twbassist whined on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I feel like going to the Equinox in the Grabyar Building, it\u2019s much better anyway,\u201d wrote gethighinthesky.<\/p>\n<p>Maximus9195 snarked on the platform, \u201cShareholder value!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Reddit user\u00a0said he wasn\u2019t defending the bank but, \u201cCould you imagine a gym that\u2019s free to 14,000-plus people? Sounds like an absolute nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,300 employees signed a petition last winter grumping\u00a0about the back-to-the-office mandate from Dimon, who said his order was ironclad no matter what they thought.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36726218\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jpmorgan-chase-ceo-jamie-dimon-104531943.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Dimon speaking at the Global Markets Conference.\" class=\"wp-image-36726218\"  \/>JPM Morgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon.  via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe abuse [of work-from-home] was extraordinary,\u201d Dimon said \u2014 a sentiment since shared by numerous other corporate chiefs who\u2019ve ordered their troops back.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan Chase spokesman Michael Fusco flatly denied to Realty Check the claim by a\u00a0Reddit poster, \u201cWe were told [the fitness center]\u00a0was free earlier [last] month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fusco said, \u201cWe never shared details on how it would operate since everything is still being finalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 270 Park Ave. fitness center \u201coffers access to cardio, strength and recovery equipment, locker rooms, daily group exercise classes, a nutrition consultation and sessions with a Well-being Performance Coach,\u201d according to the bank\u2019s\u00a0memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon promised employees lots of goodies at its new 270 Park Avenue headquarters to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[894,84,6647,102,5499,19592,23881,23882,4655,23883,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-41579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-jamie-dimon","13":"tag-jpmorgan-chase","14":"tag-office-buildings","15":"tag-park-avenue","16":"tag-real-estate","17":"tag-realty-check","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}