Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees

Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by cisco_throwaway on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:15AM (#12303144)

I heard from a colleague that John Chambers walked into one of the Cisco buildings and found that it was mostly empty due to people taking advantage of Cisco's lax policy on working from home. The buildings are now planning to get sold because they no longer need them. Either these employees that were assigned to work in those buildings are gonna get laid off with this 14K figure, or they're gonna be working from home.

I have also found that people get a lot less work done if they're working from home.

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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by 72deluxe on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:12AM (#12303310)

Is that due to not making a dedicated working space at home? I find that I am less productive depending on where I sit at home.

And other people's ideas of working from home vary. My friend's wife thought that her husband could do all the jobs around the house on his "day off".

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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by FajitaNachos on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:17AM (#12305323)

Depends on who you are. Some people say they are going to work from home and just use it as an excuse to do nothing. I'm incredibly more productive when I wfh. Not than I'm unproductive in an office environment, just more productive when I'm in my basement hacking away.

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