Did they announce hybrid work during the Cisco beat? I had to step out, but when I came back I saw talk in the chat about hybrid work and Fran stating the benefits of it. Is hybrid going to be for certain roles only, or expanded to everyone?
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They sold half of their offices already. There is no RTO
Cisco has always had a strong remote and hybrid option even well before the pandemic.
Cisco can't do a return to office, there aren't enough offices to return to.
Besides, a large number of Cisco's workforce are low-paid employees working remote from low-income countires. We'd lose money with return to office by having to 1) pay for more office spaces, 2) pay higher incomes for people in office locations.
Stupid any way you look at it.
Cisco officially adopted Hybrid Work after the pandemic. It's been written in the policies since then that every worker is considered Hybrid by default. Only clear cut exceptions seem to be staff whose main job duties require them to be in an office or if people have formalized job accommodations for working from home.
In my eyes the check-in just reconfirmed this and no changes have been announced. The policy, as is, is vague enough for Cisco to go either way it chooses. And we've seen this policy being applied exactly how it was described in the Beat: Some teams leadership requires a certain amount of days in the office. But those are mostly for teams that are heavily co-located already. In my case, working on an international team, there would be no point in going to my local office (unless it's customer related) because there would be nobody I work with there anyway. My management realizes this and this has subsequently never really been a discussion.
Also, seeing how the real estate downsizing has been going they now have locales where they couldn't even accommodate the local workforce in an office at this point.
In many places you legally cannot demand RTO if there is no O to R to. Don't know about the US though.
@ 2nrf+1uMWfOmR, private offices do not exist at Cisco, even for managers, sr. managers, & even directors. I doubt you’re a VP or SVP or you’d already have an office, so you’re sc--wed.
Time to do your extra gig on your own time, not Cisco’s time.
WFH has allowed me to do another gig since covid hit in 2020. This RTO will be very bad unless Cisco gives me a private room at the office.
Finance in RTP was told to RTO 3 days a week. Not sure why or how it benefits Cisco, but there it is.
My team is so geographically spread out no one is in RTP. There’s a group in Austin, but none of them go into the office.
I was offered job internally if i were to relocate. I said yes i would, then was told 'no relocation budget'. I said fine, I would cover the move, was told 'we changed our mind'.
RTO is inevitable. You won’t find many places supporting “hybrid” moving forward.
@1his+1uMWfOmR good luck!! And going where… Amazon?
if these mo--ns dare to push this RTO bullsh-t on me, i'm leaving and poaching good people on the way out the door
I'm not going in even if i am told to fu-k you ELT
They talked about that it’s related to what your work group needs. There’s no one plan across the company.
Nice trolling but clearly none of these people were in the call to give OP an honest answer. They quite clearly said no plans to change current arrangements. As can be seen by offloading of more buildings.
Their hybrid office and home workplace is failing miserably.
I remember the year they were considering 4-days work week, funny
I don't think they are enforcing it YET, but it seems that they are preparing the terrain.
Fran and Chuck's new way to fire you without severance if you refuse to relocate close to a Cisco office which is policy our competitors have implemented
I assume more in office and less remote
Will do what "works for us", open to interpretation the exact definition of "us".