The Coffee Run: The great de-perkification of investment banking jobs

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Banking used to be the prestige job to beat all prestige jobs. While it's still a lucrative industry to work in, the allure is somewhat fading. For graduate talent, the workload and long hours have always been a problem, but at least their banks gave them generous servings of free food and other perks to make them feel valued.

Today, that's not always the case. Find out which perks banks have been cutting in recent years by watching The Coffee Run.

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