Word is that Nomura (IB) is telling staff to keep themselves offline on Skype so there isn’t as much FaceTime pressure. Really would like to see this concept adopted by others.

I get the utility of status as a tool, but that use case isn’t what’s pressuring especially junior staff to be always chained to their desk

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