Scale office space usage and create work areas that foster a greater sense of employee inclusiveness, promote informal and formal collaboration, and encourage innovation and teamwork.
Cisco can help your organization use space more effectively and support various employee work styles by facilitating location-independent work through:
- Highly secure virtual access to corporate resources
- High-quality video and audio interaction
- Support for multiple devices
Benefits
- Reduce real estate costs, greenhouse gas emissions, and employee travel.
- Scale office space usage by providing work-space sharing and work-from-home options.
- Create workspaces that encourage more collaborative working practices, break down communication barriers across people and departments, and speed up decision-making and innovation.
- Help employees maintain a work-life balance by giving them the flexibility to work from various locations.
Proof Points
- Annual real estate and facilities operations expenses often account for more than 15 percent of non-compensation operating expenses and up to 8% of total operating expenses. (McKinsey Quarterly, 2010).
- On average, 50 percent to 70 percent of U.S. and European commercial office space is vacant during business hours. (Source: International Facility Management Association; IFMA))
- Supporting mobility can help an organization increase productivity 5 percent to 15 percent, reduce occupancy costs 20 percent to 50 percent, and improve business continuity. (Source: IMFA)
- 62 percent of employees worldwide regularly need to collaborate with people in different time zones and geographies. (Source: Economist Intelligence Unit, 2009)
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