110-Hour Workweeks Drove Young Bankers at Baird to the Brink

Anyone seen this article on WSJ? Any thoughts? I remember there was one about BofA last Spring, looks like there was another overworked analyst...

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/banking-culture-robert-w-baird-aeccc947?mod=e2li

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Why don't you paste a link or paste the article?

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