JPM on the rise

Tell me how stock price appreciation leads to making JPM a better place to work. The connection is tenuous at best. Of course i can invent something e.g. directors' stock options are worth more and they may throw you a bone when they are in the mood - but that's crap, and you know it.

stock price makes JPM a better place to work? so if it is down 3% today that means for the day it sucked to work there.....

Athena, i hope you tell your JPM interviewer that you want to work there because the stock price has risen by X% over the month, and this means that everyone there is happier by X%. I am sure your interviewer will give you an offer. straightaway.

athenaThis article is mainly from an investment/stockprice perspective, but will trickle down in making jpm a better place to work.

Post a link to the article next time.

To defend the OP: Daily fluctuations may not matter much, but a long term upward trend will reflect itself in the company, particularly compared to a long term decline or unch stock price. Investors place blame on management based on their stock returns. This blame would trickle down the ranks as everyone would be encouraged to work harder and churn out better profits. During times that the stock price is dropping, one would be concerned about things like layoffs, "fat cutting" and divestitures of business segments.

I think a FAIRLY GOOD (don't rip me apart for this, I understand how they're different) comparison is Citi and Goldman over the last five years. I believe that the employees throughout CITI have been adversely affected due to the flat-lining stock price while employees at GS have been happy because they know their company is doing well and that their management is more likely to allow their employees to work in a more relaxed environment.

Would I bring this up in an interview? No. Would I make a decision based on this? No. Does it have an impact on work environment? Yes.

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB119707200031917738.html?mod=seeking…

Yea, actually you should probably think of it as the other way around.

Stock price reflects the underlying business prospects for the firm, and Citi's stock price, and employee sentiment, reflects the underlying difficulty in the business.