Morgan Stanley’s CEO is pushing for a return to the office and says employees need to give up on ‘Jobland’ and focus on ‘Careerland’

Morgan Stanley’s CEO is pushing for a return to the office and says employees need to give up on ‘Jobland’ and focus on ‘Careerland’

Employees who want to continue working from home are in "Jobland" and need to return to the office – or "Careerland" – if they want to focus on building their skills, according to Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman. "A lot of us have gone into the mindset of 'Jobland'," Gorman said during a keynote speech at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney, reported. "Well if you're in 'Careerland,' you need to be around other people to learn from them a bit." Gorman said that his concern was centered on the extent to which people are able to develop "career skills" while working remotely, away from colleagues, rather than whether they might be unproductive or slacking off while at home. "My job running a company is to make sure that we train and develop our employees as professionals to do the job we need them to do," he said, per Bloomberg. Wall Street firms have taken a particularly firm line towards remote work, with senior bosses at major investment banks among the first to call for their staff to return to offices when pandemic measures started to be relaxed. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan asked their bankers to return