I guess it was predictable that they couldn’t pass up this opportunity to shift more to WFH and cut real estate.
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I left Cisco 2 months ago, now I make $230k a year in base salary.
It’s official.
yep I left Cisco for high paying job with big insurance company, life, and they made us set in open seating , you couldnt have conf calls without noise, or endless drone of the low legacy talent that set on the junior end of the desk. The highest ranking got end by the windows, woopie do! So told them to shove it , went back to my cube at Cisco, for less pay.
Makes perfect sense to sell old development and manufacturing buildings when your business model changes from making real products to finance. Cisco actions in the past have proven the old business customers don't matter so a quality product doesn't either.
- if BXB VPN go away, how to WFH ?
There is always SJC VPN or RTP VPN. dubas
if BXB VPN go away, how to WFH ?
We live in a future distopia where cubes are considered an improvement.
Will COVID be the end of the open office space?
PLEASE let it be so! I want my walls back. I refuse to work for companies that shove multiple people into a single cube. I had that once in the mid '90's. Luckily the cubes were the twice the size of what passed for normal cubes before the open office space reduced the cubes into little more than desks side-by-side. I spent a year in that space before I learned better.
Then I interviewed by phone w/ a company back in the early-to-mid 2000's and didn't have an in-person or on-site interview, so I had no idea of what to expect and didn't think to ask if the cubes were shared. They crammed 4 people into the size of 2 cubes. I quit after 3 months and took a new job where the working environment was better. Then, after 18 months, they went to a "mobile" work force where every desk in the building was completely unassigned. Completely first-come, first serve. Cubes were sized and spaced very much like our open, collaborative workspaces now. I quit the day before I was to be relocate to the "mobile" buildings. That's when I joined Cisco with it's 8'x8' cubes and sodas/juices/coffee/popcorn in the break rooms. I was in heaven.
Damn if the times don't change.
Which real estate is being cut?
Will COVID be the end of the open office space?
So many people asking when we go back to the office. They are in for a big surprise !!!
Welcome to the 20th Century where open-concept workspace is the new norm pretty much everywhere. COVID-19 is amplifying this since we’ve now proven we don’t need to have butts in seats in an office to be productive. Why cut resources when you can cut fixed costs?