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 dwelling in a monetary companies trade function protecting a broad geography. Cisco all the time had an Atlanta workplace, a number of actually, and whereas Atlanta’s visitors is infamous it had nothing (okay… nearly nothing) to do with persevering with fortunately as a distant worker.
With the world quickly shifting to a hybrid work surroundings over the previous few years, an increasing number of persons are having fun with the pliability of this new work fashion. As buildings reopen, that’s partially why workers aren’t flocking to them. Despite employers encouraging workers to return again to the workplace, many professionals aren’t in a rush to return again to the very same buildings they left three years in the past.
According KPMG’s 2022 U.S. Banking CEO outlook printed in October, CEOs envision the working surroundings for conventional workplace jobs within the subsequent three years to be 69% totally in-office with one other 24% hybrid. That’s 93% of workers 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 places the world over to be precisely that. And I’m fortunate as Atlanta is one in all our first places to get a significant 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 nice surrounding universities. Our new workplace is designed for in the present day’s hybrid workforce, creating not solely a magnet for present workers like me, but in addition a showcase that can entice new expertise to Cisco.
Cisco’s presence amongst midtown Atlanta’s expertise group is much more inspiring from my perspective as the worldwide lead for monetary companies. Many individuals is likely to be shocked to know that, for many years, the town has been a number one hub for monetary companies and applied sciences. By some estimates greater than two-thirds of economic transactions the world over cross by way of Atlanta. In truth, Georgia-based firms course of over 188 billion transactions per 12 months, which is over $2 trillion. It has earned the nickname “transaction alley.”
Georgia is dwelling a whole bunch of firms, many positioned within the larger Atlanta space, concerned in funds and monetary expertise. In the funds trade six of the ten U.S. fee processors are headquartered in Georgia and there are 42,000 funds workers positioned right here. Today the highest 50 Georgia-based FinTechs generate greater than $72 billion. It’s not stunning 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 companies trade. When our new workplace opens to exterior guests in April 2023, I look ahead to spending time there every week, assembly and collaborating in-person with new and previous colleagues and interesting with monetary companies shoppers to debate and display how reimagined workplaces can grow to be a magnet for workers.
The aforementioned KPMG examine is telling on this regard for the banking trade. The return to in-office is sort of 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. Other monetary establishments are comparable – like USAA who lately knowledgeable workers residing inside 60-miles of their San Antonio, Texas headquarters of the expectation to be within the workplace three days every week. Much like 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 companies establishments to go to our Atlanta workplace, our flagship Penn 1 Plaza in New York City, 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 return in-person and expertise our expertise and options. That’s precisely the aim of those places – to see how our experience and expertise as a supplier of hybrid work capabilities interprets into our personal investments in individuals and locations – and to debate how they match into your establishment’s technique as effectively.
In these new workplace environments, you will note the three key areas for hybrid work deployed:
- Empowering your individuals – Solutions that improve your group’s flexibility, enhance productiveness, and increase innovation.
- Transforming your workspaces – Smarter workspaces that join individuals in new methods assist to help their well being and well-being.
- Improving your expertise – Cisco collaboration, safety, and networking merchandise
If you wish to making your workplaces extra partaking and environment friendly attain out your Cisco Account Manager or Cisco Partner to rearrange a go to to see it motion. In the meantime you’ll be able to take digital excursions of Webex Workspaces or the New York City workplace, Penn 1 Plaza.
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