How Wall Street tries to keep junior hours in check, from weekly guidelines to 'pencils down' periods

David Solomon, Jamie Dimon, and Jane Fraser's banks all have policies in place to monitor bankers' hours. Getty Images Wall Street firms have a range of policies to monitor junior bankers' notoriously long hours. The first quarter of 2026 saw record M&A volume, which could push up hours. Here's how banks, from JPMorgan to Citi, try to keep tabs on how much juniors are working. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has said that people will probably be working 3.5 days a week within a few decades, but in...