I’ve lived in Atlanta correct most of my life but over the course of my Cisco profession, all 20 years of it, I’ve labored remotely from residence in a monetary providers trade position masking a broad geography. Cisco at all times had an Atlanta workplace, a number of the truth is, and whereas Atlanta’s visitors is infamous it had nothing (okay… virtually nothing) to do with persevering with fortunately as a distant worker.
With the world quickly shifting to a hybrid work setting over the previous few years, increasingly more persons are having fun with the flexibleness of this new work type. As buildings reopen, that’s partially why staff aren’t flocking to them. Regardless of employers encouraging staff to come back again to the workplace, many professionals aren’t in a rush to come back again to the very same buildings they left three years in the past.
In accordance KPMG’s 2022 U.S. Banking CEO outlook printed in October, CEOs envision the working setting for conventional workplace jobs within the subsequent three years to be 69% totally in-office with one other 24% hybrid. That’s 93% of staff stepping foot within the workplace on a weekly foundation.
The workplace must be a magnet not a mandate
– Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO
True to our CEO’s phrases, we’re updating key Cisco areas internationally to be precisely that. And I’m fortunate as Atlanta is certainly one of our first areas to get a serious improve to a Cisco Experience Center (CXCs). As a local Atlantan, I’m not solely proud to see Cisco represented within the coronary heart of Atlanta but in addition in shut proximity of my alma mater Georgia Tech and the numerous effective surrounding universities. Our new workplace is designed for as we speak’s hybrid workforce, creating not solely a magnet for present staff like me, but in addition a showcase that may entice new expertise to Cisco.
Cisco’s presence amongst midtown Atlanta’s know-how group is much more inspiring from my perspective as the worldwide lead for monetary providers. Many individuals is perhaps stunned to know that, for many years, town has been a number one hub for monetary providers and applied sciences. By some estimates greater than two-thirds of monetary transactions internationally cross via Atlanta. The truth is, Georgia-based firms course of over 188 billion transactions per yr, which is over $2 trillion. It has earned the nickname “transaction alley.”
Georgia is residence to a whole bunch of firms, many positioned within the better Atlanta space, concerned in funds and monetary know-how. Within the funds trade six of the ten U.S. cost processors are headquartered in Georgia and there are 42,000 funds staff positioned right here. At the moment the highest 50 Georgia-based FinTechs generate greater than $72 billion. It’s not shocking subsequently to listen to different nicknames for Atlanta, like “FinTech Capital of the World.”
As you’ll be able to see Atlanta and Georgia are essential to the monetary providers trade. When our new workplace opens to exterior guests in April 2023, I sit up for spending time there every week, assembly and collaborating in-person with new and outdated colleagues and fascinating with monetary providers shoppers to debate and reveal how reimagined workplaces can grow to be a magnet for workers.
The aforementioned KPMG research is telling on this regard for the banking trade. The return to in-office is almost double the typical in banking versus different white-collar industries. We’ve heard from Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and David Solomon of Goldman Sachs about their want for workers to be within the workplace. Different monetary establishments are comparable – like USAA who not too long ago knowledgeable staff dwelling inside 60-miles of their San Antonio, Texas headquarters of the expectation to be within the workplace three days every week. Very similar to these monetary establishments, that schedule feels about proper to me at the same time as I’m simply beginning my journey again to an workplace after 20 years.
Cisco welcomes monetary providers establishments to go to our Atlanta workplace, our flagship Penn 1 Plaza in New York Metropolis, our company campus in San Jose or any CXC across the U.S. and the world to expertise first-hand our perspective of the brand new hybrid office. We encourage our prospects to come back in-person and expertise our know-how and options. That’s precisely the aim of those areas – to see how our experience and expertise as a supplier of hybrid work capabilities interprets into our personal investments in folks and locations – and to debate how they match into your establishment’s technique as properly.
In these new workplace environments, you will note the three key areas for hybrid work deployed:
- Empowering your folks – Options that improve your crew’s flexibility, enhance productiveness, and develop innovation.
- Remodeling your workspaces – Smarter workspaces that join folks in new methods assist to assist their well being and well-being.
- Enhancing your know-how – Cisco collaboration, safety, and networking merchandise
In case you are trying to making your workplaces extra partaking and environment friendly attain out your Cisco Account Supervisor or Cisco Associate to rearrange a go to to see it motion. Within the meantime you’ll be able to take digital excursions of Webex Workspaces or the New York Metropolis workplace, Penn 1 Plaza.
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