A nxieties were already running high inside JPMorgan Chase last month, days after top leadership announced that employees would soon be required to work in-office full-time, when an executive found himself responding to a question about another contentious issue at the bank.

JPMorgan Chase will continue its diversity efforts, its CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview with CNBC on Monday, despite a broader corporate retreat from such initiatives.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says that despite employee pushback, and a petition signed by over 1,800 staff at the time of writing, most of JPMorgan's 300,000 employees are still returning to the office full-time in March.