'Will there be any Cisco Layoffs in 2019?" --- Are you kidding?!?
If all of the convoluted plans execute flawlessly; the economy remains robust with low inflation and the bull market never ends; money remains cheap and the competition disappears.... then, yes No 'Big' Layoffs... but Limited Layoffs are now a fact of corporate life, like pruning, trimming your garden to help the budding plants by weeding out what failed to grow, blossom.
And all enhanced by heaps, tons of Manure…
This was posted as a reply on another thread ( @VTkYoIC-tnw ). A little too much sarcasm if you ask me, but that aside, the OP is right. Layoffs have really become a fact of everyday life.