Enjoy your last days working from home
Just announced on Q2 call
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My golf game getting betters with WFH how the fu-k can I practise now at cheap course rates midweek and still get paid by Cisco?
I works from home 2 hour days but nobody is knowing
Get back to office ! Collaborate ! We need human connection ! We are a one big family.
Human race has survived because of collaboration ! Period !
Some working really remotely, miles away from office in another city, should be allowed to work remotely.
RTO is used by companies to make employees leave so that they can reduce the headcount before layoff. Force them out !
Employees should work at least 3 days in office. Hardware teams and lab teams work almost everyday in office. All depends on the job.
yo momma is the clown for not getting the coat hanger after you when she had the chance.
These are clown responses. How in the world did you last this long in tech? Snowflakes.
@fq may I add some of us technically are hybrid and located >30 minutes from the office, but have absolutely zero reason to come due to what I mentioned previously, so we are going to be hit with this bullsh-t
@es Thats the most ridiculous part of this all. My team comprises of tech leads and managers. We do DevOps. We are remote and located in different countries. 95% of the time im working with people outside of my team in the US / India timezone anyways. RTO means we will have to sit on calls from an office instead from home. How in the world does this makes any sense ???
Stop whining, b!tching and moaning. Embrace change, because “Change is the only constant” - C Patel, CTO EMEA, Patel God.
“If you don’t like Cisco, feel free to leave” - G2. Patel God in Chief.
I go into the office 2-3 times a week. I enjoy my team, collaboration and the energy in what we are building, To each their own.
if you live 50 miles from RTP, they are doing RTO for certain groups. Still - no one is going in - I hear it's a ghost town. I've been a remote worker for 9 years with Cisco, and I do not plan on RTO'ing. I have been mandated to go back twice a week but nope. It's a waste of my time and energy.
Can't expense mileage either anymore, they took that away.
For RTO to be successful, Cisco should bring back all jobs from overseas and hire locally so teams can work together in person which is much more productive than working with a team with members in every time zone in the world.
RTO is stupid when people you work with are all over the world and not in your local office.
I'll just spend 3 days chatting with coworkers about nonwork stuff. Any work-related discussions will still be done over Webex. ELT obviously doesn't care about productivity.
@ea is not an inconvenience, it’s a terrible environment to actually do work. Not everyone does their best work while performing socially, that’s a fact.
People are acting like there's some sort of divine right to working remote. My opinion is that its the pendulum swinging back from the over-reaction office closures during Covid. Yeah, you got used to working remote but things change, time to go back into the office. It might be an inconvenience for you but that's for you to figure out.
What I see as the big negative on this move is that its planned rather poorly. Seems that the down-rank leadership teams had no idea it was coming. They're not ready with a "what does this mean" or answers to other common questions.
WPR has been reducing seating capacity for years now. I seriously doubt that there is desk capacity in some locations, allocated to Collab, to support all of the local folks coming into the office Tuesday - Thursday (call that most likely days). You're supposed to come in three days a week but they won't give you an assigned spot. Every day you have to hunt for a spot, get it set up, and then break it down before going home? Even before Covid when they started rolling out that open workspace policy folks were saying the heck with it and started WFH.
Imagine working on the team that builds Webex Teams and being told that Teams isn't working for your team to work on Teams. So your team needs to collocate to work on Teams, even though you'll still be using Teams to build Teams, wherever you are.
@ck G2 response "We are in the age of AI. AI AI AI AI. Our Collab enables others to WFH but not us. AI AI AI AI"
Does anyone else find it ironic the collab team is being told to come into the office when they literally work for the BU that enables WFH?
Oh G2, your d-mbsh!t is showing. LOL.
Yeah we in Collab are sc--wed. Noone is happy. I bet a lot of job applications will be sent out this month
The only thing CISCO really care about is its stock price to the institutional investors. All others are just PR. Actually, cannot single out CISCO on this. Majority of the public trading companies behave like this way.
@b6 so much for the new low carbon mode on WebEx. All that bullsh-t they tried to shove down our throats about Cisco caring for the environment even just a tiny little bit will be completely overbeared 10000 time over with the potentially thousands of people now spending tens of hours every month commuting to the office
Next step is no more remote workers ( with very few exceptions)
This certainly is not company wide or in Sales.
Hundreds of people now forced to commute.
I thought Collab leadership cares about carbon footprints /s
@ax "Collaboration All Hands - Q2 FY26", with Snorre Kjesbu.
What call exactly are you referring to? I don't see anything in Outlook today related to "Q2".
Men: create AI replication of bald people ( use NVIDIA’s new Cosmos 2.5 for example). Bald = good, because both G2 and the Patel God who’s the CTO EMEA, will be pleased. Worship them with fresh flowers and Bombay Mix, and you may just get away with WFO while you watch Netflix.
Women: do similar to men above but copy the hairstyle of Fran or Liz. If Fran, then try to get a nose job too.
Loan the GPUs to create the synthetic humanoids from OutSh!t because they don’t do any work anyways in the name of research. All they do is market themselves and “RK” posting rubbish on LinkedIn.
There , problem solved.
@af I fully agree. Even though im not affected as i live a 5 minute drive from the office anyways, I can definately see the people who have to commute 1+ hour every day dropping their productivity by 15-20% accordingly, and I fully support them. This decision was made entirely by people behind closed doors who work fully remote anyways, without any input from engineers who actually do all the heavy lifting. There is an overwhelming hatred towards RTO yet its being pushed.
Know what else is now official? My commitment to lower work quality, be unhelpful and unpleasant, generally malinger, and proactively find ways to waste company resources.
Physical presence is more important than work output, so physical presence is what I'll provide.
You commute in your own time. They don’t care that you don’t live near an office. Workplace being made more toxic just as others have said to make people leave of their own accord and save Cisco paying severance.
D-mbest initiative ever.
Looks like it applies mainly to Collab? But it was announced as "Encouraged" 3+ days in office, if you were within commuting distance.
They did not explain what commuting distance is, I am assuming 50 miles based on what people said before? They listed a whole bunch of offices globally.
People asked a bunch of questions, None really got answered, besides standard political answers.
anymore specifics? Like when, what about employees not near offices, etc.