Is it legal to take the battle to court if you don't think its fair you are on the list ? Don't sign the package and don't resign ?

Bob Slydell: Would you bear with me for just a second, please? Peter Gibbons: OK. Bob Slydell: What if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program. Would that do anything... — read more 

to quit !

This is the best place to live, work, and play. That is surely the perception I had, have (...and might have) Why is Cisco doing this to Engineers, I have clue. I read another thread here, stating - as executives are not able to 'execute plan', they... — read more 

Been at Cisco for over 12 years, and this is probably the worst Layoff ever, from a communication standpoint everyone has been in the dark, the rumor of the numbers are insane, I though Chuck would be a better leader and have right minded people... — read more 

the networking/telecoms/IT sector is mature and deflationary. Rapidly declining ASPs, open source, cheap labour help accelerate this, which is good for end customers and bad for fat management in public companies. growth will be flat to decline in SP... — read more 

It's really sad to look at all of the people genuinely concerned about being laid off when there are those, like me, who know we should be and will not. Why? Because our execs chose to lay off senior people with a lot of great classic Cisco hw/sw... — read more 

Cisco so far has refused to comment on media reports. Why are they not denying those media reports. It is a PR disaster for Cisco. I have not seen a single Cisco HR, PR, Media Spokesperson deny it on any social media site. WHY? At least Cisco can... — read more 

Thought I would have a free holiday on Cisco.....

Monoprice has an 8 port GE switch for $18.99 (Eighteen Dollars and ninety-nine cents, not $1899.00 !) and a 24 port for <$300.00 Facebook FBOSS (open source switching) is free. Amazing open source ProjecTs such as OpenStack, ON.Lab, Open Daylight... — read more 

Does anybody know HR or IT contact so we can post this site on jive? I find good informations on what happening in company which is better than cec article on retrain engineers on digital age.

Any idea when will the notifications start?

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Any thoughts?

imho they need to buy a smaller cloud hosting provider (say rackspace) to gain their own playing field to deploy cloud sw products and try to scale/popularize that as a reference to enterprises . pretty much all the other big providers (amazon... — read more 

It's hard to concentrate because the finance and hr snake about to unleash their layoff plan. Executive managers (cfo, c-suit, etc) have proved for the last 5 years they can not plan or execute to a plan so they execute people. If they were so good... — read more 

I presume if you get laid off it will be the best thing that happened to you (if you are an engineer). I from one, will leave Cisco if I am not laid off... Cisco is not a family and the top leaders are not held accountable for their stupid mistakes... — read more 

The rumors are true about the layoffs, but the spin is total bullshit. This layoff is not about a transition from hardware roots to a software stance. This is about the new leadership team taking out cost by letting older more experienced people to... — read more 

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/17/cisco-systems-to-lay-off-about-14000-employees-report.html

I was once a Cisco employee who carried out quite a few redundancies. Eventually, I left because of this cold, uncaring approach to loyal employees. The process of reading a script to a loyal employee is incredibly degrading for both parties. Maybe... — read more 

7-9% is the number. Company wide but some units might be affected more than the other. 20% is just not feasible. .. it will kill some groups in services, sales, cloud businesses.

http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/cisco-systems-to-lay-off-about-14000-employees-report/53733449?action=profile_completion&utm_source=Mailer&utm_medium=ET_batch&utm_campaign=ettelecom_news_2016-08-17

Is this a reliable source?

While these companies has billions in cash pile why they have to layoff people who helped to take Cisco there? Also whoever survive now has to work like donkey to carry abondon baggage of others.

As someone who is currently wrapping up an internship this whole layoff situation is terrifying

I was ask to come to san jose campus this week to finish scrum because our project is getting shut down. My team is nervous and hear rumour that chuck or kelly will announce all LR names over loud speaker to the campus on thursday before afternoon... — read more 

14,308 total jobs will be cut: 7642 in SJ 5771 in RTP 895 in other locations Majority of the cuts will be for those reporting to Guillermo Diaz. I started dropping hints to my employees last month but unfortunately in won't be able to let them go... — read more 

I remember years ago Chambers took the whole executive team fishing during layoff week in order to protect the team from anyone who decided to go postal. Anyone been invited fishing with Chuck ? :-)

The list has been finalised, and the Cisco Dubai office will be firing 60 people. That is about 20% of the current workforce. Previously, the severance package has been 5 months salary (including allowances) and one month notice period, in which you... — read more