Hybrid work is challenging assumptions that have driven workplace design for the past 50 years. Organizations must rethink how workspace design, HR policies, and technology come together to serve employees moving forward.

With 80,000 employees globally, and a real estate portfolio exceeding 18 million square feet, Cisco has recently undertaken efforts to completely redefine its workplace strategy.

These steps include divesting itself of under-utilized offices, and then investing in the modernization of key locations to support hybrid work. Critical elements of this new strategy include a focus on rebalancing space and building more collaborative work environments, ensuring the new environments contribute to the company’s sustainability goals, making sure the offices support the health and well-being of employees and visitors, and finally, creating a technology platform that allows Cisco to truly digitize its real estate portfolio.

This new approach helps Cisco achieve its enterprise goals of attracting and retaining the best talent, driving innovation and employee engagement, and accelerating its journey towards becoming net zero by 2040.

In this presentation from NFMT Baltimore, Bill Gerhardt, Senior Director for Hybrid, Smart and Sustainable Solutions for Cisco, shares details on Cisco’s strategy for creating its next-generation workplace environments, including lessons learned in the design, build and opening of its offices in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta.

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