Cisco employees need to be honest with themselves and realize they stay at Cisco because they enjoy their lazy part time pajama lifestyle and don't want to take a job with career and financial upside that requires 40+ hours per week with trips to an office
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True. This is how Cisco keeps people: work from anywhere, and work as little as possible. You are at the right place if you want to minimize your effort and still get paid decently. You are also in the right place if you think it will work fine to have people in Europe working on west coast teams. There is a reason why most companies don’t do it. Cisco does it because it’s a cheap way to keep people at Cisco. They’re becoming too lazy to quit.
100% - the hidden cost of complacency
i wok 2hrs in every day and but not one ever is even the knowed
I think this post is accurate
Hey Arista Director nobody wants to work for you anyway - also I think it’s hilarious that instead of working your job- you decide to spend your time trolling on a Cisco board. We did not give Cisco the power douche bag.
You guys are too old and slow. Would not hire you.
Some teams do better in a collaborative workspace, others not and individuals should work how and where they work so long as the work gets done. With geographically diverse teams in which many members are not co-located, it makes no sense whatsoever to work in an office. Additionally, companies benefit from major savings on office upkeep. It's usually people managers who don't actually do or understand the work their teams accomplish that want to be in an office so they can "take roll" and try to look like they are actually necessary. (most are not, btw) It's ridiculous and a complete waste of actual productivity.
My manager fits this to a tee and encourages our team to do whatever we want so he doesn’t lose direct reports so he can keep his job
Nobody can find a job outside Cisco. Not that we have not been looking
Cisco encouraged remote work during pandemic because they they thought they could sell more WebEx but ELT failed again and ex-Cisco engineers at Zoom won the battle
Hey mo--n, apparently the stats say that working from home improve efficiency and you tend to work more when you are working from home, partially because in the office you get to waste time with mo--ns like you
This is accurate and is very common behavior when someone works for a dysfunctional organization