giving back

Time off to give back. We talk about it on this blog a lot, because employees love the idea of giving back. But a lot of the stories are about going big. Traveling to Honduras, volunteering for the big cats. But the great thing about this time off to give back, is that it doesn’t HAVE to be about go…

It’s a numbers game for good! Every Cisco office. Every country. Every year. That’s the multiplier for how Cisco’s employees invest their working hours to give back to the local communities. Plus, it’s all about the local needs, too! In Ljubljana, where the Slovenian office is located, we used one o…

Cisconians like to give back. It’s part of what makes working here so awesome. We just want to ROAR about how Cisco enables us to change the world with our new Time2Give benefit. Cisco gives us the encouragement and means to change our communities with time off in addition to our regular paid time o…

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon Giving back to the community is an important part of Cisco culture, and Cisco encourages volunteerism. They make it pretty easy, too, by planning volunteer opportunities–such as the company-wide event, Day2Give–and…

An issue I can relate to – the lack of women in cybersecurity. While women represented 25% of computing professionals in 2015, they only represented 10% of the information security professions. Cisco gives us time to volunteer to make a difference in the world where we have a personal stake. I put m…

As I drove to the office one Friday in March, little did I know that my day would end with me eating four beetles. Yes, you read that correctly, BEETLES! The little critters that you find in your garden that look quite like cockroaches. “Why on earth would you do that?” I hear you cry. I am often he…

We all face hardships in life, some more than others. There was a time in my life where I needed the help of those around me, and in return, paying that forward has become my passion. With Cisco’s recent announcement that they were giving every employee five days to give back to the global community…

Every day, there are millions in need in our communities and around the world– a mother who is not able to feed her children before putting them to bed; a child who is not able to attend school because of open wounds on his or her body; a family without housing because of war and conflict in their c…

“Do a good turn daily.” I was in the 6th grade when I first confidently recited the Scout Slogan in front of my troop. My uniform swallowed the frame of my entire body, but the words left my mouth with sound conviction as I accepted the challenge to perform a kind deed daily—big or small. 8 years la…